van Heuven Walter J B, Mandera Pawel, Keuleers Emmanuel, Brysbaert Marc
a School of Psychology , University of Nottingham , Nottingham , UK.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2014;67(6):1176-90. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2013.850521. Epub 2014 Jan 13.
We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the British National Corpus and the SUBTLEX-US frequencies. In addition to the word form frequencies, we also present measures of contextual diversity part-of-speech specific word frequencies, word frequencies in children programmes, and word bigram frequencies, giving researchers of British English access to the full range of norms recently made available for other languages. Finally, we introduce a new measure of word frequency, the Zipf scale, which we hope will stop the current misunderstandings of the word frequency effect.
我们展示了基于英国电视节目字幕的词频。我们发现，与基于英国国家语料库的词频和SUBTLEX-US词频相比，SUBTLEX-UK词频能解释英国词汇项目中词汇判断时间更多的方差。除了词形频率外，我们还展示了上下文多样性的度量、特定词性的词频、儿童节目中的词频以及词二元组频率，使英式英语研究者能够获取最近为其他语言提供的全套规范。最后，我们引入了一种新的词频度量方法——齐普夫量表，我们希望它能消除目前对词频效应的误解。
