CLEARPOND: Cross-Linguistic Easy-Access Resource for Phonological and Orthographic Neighborhood Densitites

Authors: Viorica MarianJames BartolottiSarah ChabalAnthony Shook
Updated: Mon 24 December 2012
Source: https://clearpond.northwestern.edu/index.html
Type: software (online) & TXT files
Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Keywords: linguisticsphoneticsneighborhood-densitydatabaselexiconDutchEnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
Open Access: yes
License:
Documentation: https://clearpond.northwestern.edu/ClearpondUserGuide.pdf
Publications: Marian, V., Bartolotti, J., Chabal, S., Shook, A. (2012). CLEARPOND: Cross-Linguistic Easy-Access Resource for Phonological and Orthographic Neighborhood Densities. PLoS ONE 7(8): e43230. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043230
Citation: Marian, V., Bartolotti, J., Chabal, S., Shook, A. (2012). CLEARPOND: Cross-Linguistic Easy-Access Resource for Phonological and Orthographic Neighborhood Densities. Northwestern Bilingualism & Psycholinguistics Research Group. https://clearpond.northwestern.edu/index.html
Summary:

CLEARPOND allows researchers to input a word or list of words and obtain phonological and orthographic neighbors, neighborhood densities, mean neighborhood frequencies, word lengths by number of phonemes and graphemes, and spoken-word frequencies. Neighbors can be defined by substitution, deletion, and/or addition, and the database can be queried separately along each metric or summed across all three. Neighborhood values can be obtained both within and across languages, and outputs can optionally be restricted to neighbors of higher frequency. To enable researchers to more quickly and easily develop stimuli, CLEARPOND can also be searched by features, generating lists of words that meet precise criteria, such as a specific range of neighborhood sizes, lexical frequencies, and/or word lengths.