We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show
that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision …

This article introduces EsPal: a Web-accessible repository containing a comprehensive set
of properties of Spanish words. EsPal is based on an extensible set of data sources …

For decades word frequency has been one of the most important variables in
psycholinguistics. Frequent words are more easily recognized and processed more …

From mid-childhood onward, children learn hundreds of new words every year incidentally
through reading. Yet little is known about this process and the circumstances in which …

Abstract Words are widely used as stimuli in cognitive research. Because of their complexity,
using words requires strict control of their objective (lexical and sublexical) and subjective …

This article introduces the Children and Young People's Books-Lexicon (CYP-LEX), a large-
scale lexical database derived from books popular with children and young people in the …

Frequency exerts a powerful influence on lexical processing but it is possible that at least
part of its effect is caused by high frequency words being experienced in more diverse …

Classic accounts of lexical organization posit that humans are sensitive to environmental
frequency, suggesting a mechanism for word learning based on repetition. However, a …

Recent research has shown the benefits of high contextual diversity, defined as the number
of different contexts in which a word appears, when incidentally learning new words. These …

Recent research has shown contextual diversity (ie, the number of passages in which a
given word appears) to be a reliable predictor of word processing difficulty. It has also been …