LEXIN: A lexical database from Spanish kindergarten and first-grade readers

The LEXIN database offers psycholinguistic indexes of the 13,184 different words (types) computed from 178,839 occurrences of these words (tokens) contained in a corpus of 134 beginning readers widely used in Spain. This database provides four statistical indicators: F (overall word frequency), D (i...

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Published in:Behavior research methods 2009-11, Vol.41 (4), p.1009-1017
Main Authors: Corral, Silvia, Ferrero, Marta, Goikoetxea, Edurne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alzheimer's disease
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Child
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive Psychology
Computers
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Databases, Factual
Dictionaries
Educational evaluation
Educational psychology
Female
Humans
Language
Language acquisition
Linguistics
Male
Phonetics
Psycholinguistics - statistics & numerical data
Psychology
Semantics
Software
Spain
Studies
Vocabulary
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Summary:The LEXIN database offers psycholinguistic indexes of the 13,184 different words (types) computed from 178,839 occurrences of these words (tokens) contained in a corpus of 134 beginning readers widely used in Spain. This database provides four statistical indicators: F (overall word frequency), D (index of dispersion across selected readers), U (estimated frequency per million words), and SFI (standard frequency index). It also gives information about the number of letters, syntactic category, and syllabic structure of the words included. To facilitate comparisons, LEXIN provides data from LEXESP’s (Sebastián-Gallés, Martí, Cuetos, & Carreiras, 2000), Alameda and Cuetos’s (1995), and Martínez and García’s (2004) Spanish adult psycholinguistic frequency databases. Access to the LEXIN database is facilitated by a computer program. The LEXIN program allows for the creation of word lists by letting the user specify searching criteria. LEXIN can be useful for researchers in cognitive psychology, particularly in the areas of psycholinguistics and education.
ISSN:1554-351X
1554-3528
DOI:10.3758/BRM.41.4.1009