Software & Data
This page lists the data we collected and the software we developed in the course of our research.
Word ratings
- Word ratings of age of acquisition, concreteness, valence, arousal and sensory modalities for thousands of Dutch and English words
Our Lexicon projects
Software
- Wuggy, our pseudoword generator.
- Vwr, an R package with utitily functions for visual word recognition research.
- A small library for fast computation of average levenshtein distances (e.g., OLD20) in Python.
- Duometer, a tool for detecting near-duplicate documents in text corpora.
Word Frequencies
- different databases containing word frequency norms for several languages based on film subtitles
Word Prevalence
- Word prevalence refers to the percentage of people who know the word. It is largely complementary to word frequency.
- Here you find the measure for Dutch words.
- Here you find the measure for English words.
- Here you find word prevalence measures for English L2 speakers.
- Here you find the measure for Spanish words.
Vocabulary tests (language proficiency)
- Lemhöfer & Broersma’s LEXTALE tests for English, German, and Dutch
- Our LEXTALE_FR test for French
- Our LEXTALE_Esp test for Spanish
- Our LexITA test for Italian
- Dutch one minute reading test for students (Een Minuut Test voor Studenten)
- Dutch vocabulary test with multiple choice answers (Nederlandse woordenschattest met meerkeuzevragen)
- Flamingo test (Test reading aloud for students)
- The Dutch Auditory & Image Vocabulary test (DAIVT); format of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test.
- A French C-test of language proficiency.
Spelling tests
- Spelling dictation tests for English and Dutch
The Dutch Author Recognition Test
- The Dutch Author Recognition Test to estimate the number of fiction books individuals have read.
Picture stimuli
- The Verma & Brysbaert pictures of tools with matched objects and non-objects
- The Multipic database with colored pictures of 750 objects
- Dutch norms for the 1400 BOSS pictures
Semantic Vectors
- Semantic vectors for English and Dutch
- Semantic vectors for Italian
List of megastudies with links to data (if available)
- Have a look here
Outside Resources
- Gao et al. (2022) developed SCOPE, a meta-database with an extensive, curated collection of psycholinguistic variable values for English from major databases. The metabase contains about 250 lexical variables, organized into 7 major categories. You can do online searches here.
- Boris New and Manuel Gimenes published word Wordlex frequencies for 55 languages (many of those not yet well investigated). For the few new languages we tried out, they worked better than other measures avaiable. You can do online searches here.
- Language goldmine has links to several hundreds of data-sets and other resources for psycholinguistic research.
- Jack Taylor has made a shiny app that allows you to select stimulus materials based on some 60 variables (or matched on those variables).
- Jamie Reilly has a website summarizing the main resources for English words.
- Geoff Hollis and Chris Westbury calculated measures of valence, arousal, dominance, AoA, and concreteness for 80 thousand words on the basis of our ratings and semantic vectors.
- The Word Association Database contains word associations to thousands of Dutch and English words. Very useful if you are interested in the meaning of words.
- Colleagues from Northwestern University have used our databases to collect Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish phonological and orthographic cross-language neighborhood densities. Go and have a look at their Clearpond page.
- Erin Buchanan and her group have created a bibliography of resources and a database of data they collected themselves. You find more information about the bibliography here.
- Diconne et al. (2022) collected most emotional stimuli available for research, and made them available in a single resource; KAPODI.
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