Large database of English compounds
| Authors: | Christina Gagne, Thomas Spalding, Daniel Schmidtke |
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| Updated: | Tue 24 December 2019 |
| Source: | https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/dc3b9033-14d0-48d7-b6fa-6398a30e61e4 |
| Type: | audio database (WAV files) |
| Languages: | English |
| Keywords: | psycholinguistics, compounds, pragmatics, English |
| Open Access: | yes |
| License: | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International |
| Publications: | Gagné, CL., Spalding, TL., & Schmidtke, D. (2019). LADEC: Large database of English compounds. Behaviour Research Methods. |
| Summary: | The Large Database of English Compounds (LADEC) consists of over 8000 English words that can be parsed into two constituents that are free morphemes. This file contains compounds formed from 3-10 letter long bases. All items are listed in Wordnet as Nouns. The database contains a number of linguistic and psycholinguistic variables including semantic transparency, family size, bigram frequency, sentiment (valence), and word frequency. |