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 and arousal for thousands of Dutch and English words
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.
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
Pictures of tools
- The Verma & Brysbaert pictures of tools with matched objects and non-objects
- The Multipic database with colored pictures of 750 objects
Outside Resources
- Language goldmine has links to several hundreds of data-sets and other resources for psycholinguistic research.
- LexicALL also contains many useful data-sets and other resources for psycholinguistic research.
- 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.
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