Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas
Brysbaert,Marc Mandera,Paweł McCormick,Samantha F Keuleers,Emmanuel
Brysbaert,Marc
Mandera,Paweł
McCormick,Samantha F
Keuleers,Emmanuel
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We present word prevalence data for 61,858 English words. Word prevalence refers to the number of people who know the word. The measure was obtained on the basis of an online crowdsourcing study involving over 220,000 people. Word prevalence data are useful for gauging the difficulty of words and, as such, for matching stimulus materials in experimental conditions or selecting stimulus materials for vocabulary tests. Word prevalence also predicts word processing times, over and above the effects of word frequency, word length, similarity to other words, and age of acquisition, in line with previous findings in the Dutch language.
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2018
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Brysbaert, M, Mandera, P, McCormick, S F & Keuleers, E 2018, 'Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 51, pp. 467-479. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9