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HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children
In this article, we introduce HelexKids, an online written-word database for Greek-speaking children in primary education (Grades 1 to 6). The database is organized on a grade-by-grade basis, and on a cumulative basis by combining Grade 1 with Grades 2 to 6. It provides values for Zipf, frequency pe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5352803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26822666 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0698-5 |
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author | Terzopoulos, Aris R. Duncan, Lynne G. Wilson, Mark A. J. Niolaki, Georgia Z. Masterson, Jackie |
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description | In this article, we introduce HelexKids, an online written-word database for Greek-speaking children in primary education (Grades 1 to 6). The database is organized on a grade-by-grade basis, and on a cumulative basis by combining Grade 1 with Grades 2 to 6. It provides values for Zipf, frequency per million, dispersion, estimated word frequency per million, standard word frequency, contextual diversity, orthographic Levenshtein distance, and lemma frequency. These values are derived from 116 textbooks used in primary education in Greece and Cyprus, producing a total of 68,692 different word types. HelexKids was developed to assist researchers in studying language development, educators in selecting age-appropriate items for teaching, as well as writers and authors of educational books for Greek/Cypriot children. The database is open access and can be searched online at www.helexkids.org. |
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spelling | pubmed-53528032017-03-28 HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children Terzopoulos, Aris R. Duncan, Lynne G. Wilson, Mark A. J. Niolaki, Georgia Z. Masterson, Jackie Behav Res Methods Article In this article, we introduce HelexKids, an online written-word database for Greek-speaking children in primary education (Grades 1 to 6). The database is organized on a grade-by-grade basis, and on a cumulative basis by combining Grade 1 with Grades 2 to 6. It provides values for Zipf, frequency per million, dispersion, estimated word frequency per million, standard word frequency, contextual diversity, orthographic Levenshtein distance, and lemma frequency. These values are derived from 116 textbooks used in primary education in Greece and Cyprus, producing a total of 68,692 different word types. HelexKids was developed to assist researchers in studying language development, educators in selecting age-appropriate items for teaching, as well as writers and authors of educational books for Greek/Cypriot children. The database is open access and can be searched online at www.helexkids.org. Springer US 2016-01-28 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5352803/ /pubmed/26822666 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0698-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Terzopoulos, Aris R. Duncan, Lynne G. Wilson, Mark A. J. Niolaki, Georgia Z. Masterson, Jackie HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children |
title | HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children |
title_full | HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children |
title_fullStr | HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children |
title_full_unstemmed | HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children |
title_short | HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children |
title_sort | helexkids: a word frequency database for greek and cypriot primary school children |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5352803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26822666 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0698-5 |
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