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Extracting Word Frequencies From Child Language Corpora: A New Tool for Developmental Psycholinguistic Research.

Purpose: We introduce childeswordfreq, an R-based tool for extracting frequency data from the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) database. This tool provides researchers with the ability to efficiently analyze word and phrase frequencies across multiple languages and speaker roles within...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 69; no. 7; pp. 3341 - 3351
Main Authors: Albudoor, Nahar, Anaya, Jissel B.
Format: Article
Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Jul2026
Subjects:
Psycholinguistics
Vocabulary
Language acquisition
Children
Databases
Computer software
Descriptive statistics
Information retrieval
Data analysis software
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