Child word frequency list?

[Paola Colozzo]

Hello
We searched far and wide for such data in our lab recently, and have not had much success.

For detailed AoA data, we have relied on the CDI website.

Here are two other sources you may like to consult:

Zeno, Ivens, Millard, & Duvvuri (1995). The educator's word frequency guide, Touchstone Applied Science Associates (TASA), Inc.
It is based on written materials destined to children of all ages.  It provides word frequencies per million for each grade-level from K to high school. Sampled a broad spectrum of reading materials destined to children and teenagers used in schools and colleges throughout the USA.

Moe, Hopkins, & Rush (1982). The vocabulary of first-grade children. Springfiled, IL, Charles C. Thomas.
Compilation of words spoken by first-grade children compiled in 1974 to 1981
Language samples obtained at different times during the first grade year from 329 children and resulted in 6412 different words from a corpus of over 285 000 spoken words 

Perhaps your search will be more fruitful.
Best of luck, 
Paola


-----Original Message-----

> Date: Fri Apr 25 10:07:52 PDT 2008
> From: "Bruno Estigarribia" <brunilda at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Child word frequency list?
> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
>
> 
> Sorry, that was unclear. Child production/comprehension. The CHILDES 
> page actually has a count of parental speech, and we could easily create 
> one from extant CHILDES data, but I wondered if there was anything 
> published? In the end, maybe a count in the CHILDES corpus would be the 
> best thing?
> Bruno
> > Do you want input frequency, or child frequency?
> >
> > I'm not sure of a database of either (I've used input frequency from a
> > couple of CHILDES corpora when I needed something rough and ready) but
> > the International Picture Naming Project:
> >
> > http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/
> >
> > has age of acquisition for the words in its database.
> >
> > Katie Alcock
> >
> >
> > Katie Alcock, DPhil
> > Lecturer
> > Department of Psychology
> > Lancaster University
> > Fylde College
> > Lancaster LA1 4YF
> >
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-
> >> childes at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Estigarribia
> >> Sent: 25 April 2008 17:33
> >> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
> >> Subject: Child word frequency list?
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> Are there any published word frequency lists for American-English
> >> speaking children (preferably aged 2 to 6)? I am familiar with
> >>     
> > frequency
> >   
> >> lists from text or adult spoken language, and also with some from
> >> reading books (or reading-related, such as the Dolch list). But I need
> >> something from spoken production/comprehension. My group will use these
> >> words to construct items to test speech in children with and without
> >> intellectual disability, with mental ages from 2 to 6.
> >>
> >> Thanks all,
> >> Bruno Estigarribia
> >> FPG Child Development Institute
> >> Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center
> >> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >
> > >
> >   
> 
> 
> >
--
Paola Colozzo, MOA, SLP(C)
Speech-Language Pathologist
Doctoral Candidate
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
The University of British Columbia
5804 Fairview Avenue
Vancouver BC
V6T 1Z3

Ph  604-822-0659
Fax 604-822-6569
pcolozzo at interchange.ubc.ca


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