TY - JOUR A1 - Schroeder, Sascha A1 - Würzner, Kay-Michael A1 - Heister, Julian A1 - Geyken, Alexander A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold T1 - childLex: a lexical database of German read by children JF - Behavior research methods : a journal of the Psychonomic Society N2 - This article introduces childLex, an online database of German read by children. childLex is based on a corpus of children's books and comprises 10 million words that were syntactically annotated and lemmatized. childLex reports linguistic norms for lexical, superlexical, and sublexical variables in three different age groups: 6-8 (grades 1-2), 9-10 (grades 3-4), and 11-12 years (grades 5-6). Here, we describe how childLex was collected and analyzed. In addition, we provide information about the distributions of word frequency, word length, and orthographic neighborhood size, as well as their intercorrelations. Finally, we explain how childLex can be accessed using a Web interface. KW - Lexical database KW - Child language KW - Reading development Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-014-0528-1 SN - 1554-351X SN - 1554-3528 VL - 47 IS - 4 SP - 1085 EP - 1094 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heister, Julian A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold T1 - Comparing word frequencies from different German text corpora Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-86956-178-3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Heister, Julian A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold T1 - Comparing word frequencies from different German text corpora JF - Potsdam cognitive science series N2 - Inhalt: Introduction Developments in creating corpora dlexDB, subtitles, and tabloid newspapers Rating corpus emotionality Current study Method Materials Corpora Results Type-token ratio Validity: Effects of task difficulty Emotionality of a corpus Validity: Effects of emotionality Discussion Outlook References Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62346 SN - 2190-4545 SN - 2190-4553 IS - 3 SP - 27 EP - 44 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -