21.2241, FYI: English, Chinese and Dutch word frequencies

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Subject: 21.2241, FYI: English, Chinese and Dutch word frequencies

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Date: 14-May-2010
From: Marc Brysbaert < marc.brysbaert at ugent.be >
Subject: English, Chinese and Dutch word frequencies
 

	
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 09:22:09
From: Marc Brysbaert [marc.brysbaert at ugent.be]
Subject: English, Chinese and Dutch word frequencies

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As part of our SUBTLEX series, we have released American English, Chinese,
and Dutch word frequencies on the basis of film and television subtitles.
The advantages of the list are:

1. The frequencies are freely available in easy to use files.

2. The frequencies predict lexical decision times and naming times better
than other frequencies available (including Celex).

3. The frequencies have been published in a scientific journal.

You can find more information (and files with the frequencies) on:

http://crr.ugent.be/programs-data/subtlex-nl

References:

Brysbaert, M. & New, B. (2009) Moving beyond Kucera and Francis : A  
Critical Evaluation of Current Word Frequency Norms and the  
Introduction of a New and Improved Word Frequency Measure for American  
English. Behavior Research Methods, 41 (4), 977-990.

Cai, Q., & Brysbaert, M. (in press). SUBTLEX-CH: Chinese Word and  
Character Frequencies Based on Film Subtitles. Plos ONE.

Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M. & New, B. (in press). SUBTLEX-NL: A new  
frequency measure for Dutch words based on film subtitles. Behavior  
Research Methods.



Marc Brysbaert
Ghent University 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Dutch (nld)
                     English (eng)





 




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