Assessing the Usefulness of Google Books’ Word Frequencies for Psycholinguistic Research on Word Processing
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Assessing the Usefulness of Google Books’ Word Frequencies for Psycholinguistic Research on Word Processing
In this Perspective Article we assess the usefulness of Google's new word frequencies for word recognition research (lexical decision and word naming). We find that, despite the massive corpus on which the Google estimates are based (131 billion words from books published in the United States alone), the Google American English frequencies explain 11% less of the variance in the lexical decisio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00027