The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The use of film subtitles to estimate word frequencies

Published:2007-09-28 Issue:4 Volume:28 Page:661-677
ISSN:0142-7164
Container-title:Applied Psycholinguistics
language:en
Short-container-title:Applied Psycholinguistics

Author:

NEW BORIS,BRYSBAERT MARC,VERONIS JEAN,PALLIER CHRISTOPHE

Abstract

We examine the use of film subtitles as an approximation of word frequencies in human interactions. Because subtitle files are widely available on the Internet, they may present a fast and easy way to obtain word frequency measures in language registers other than text writing. We compiled a corpus of 52 million French words, coming from a variety of films. Frequency measures based on this corpus compared well to other spoken and written frequency measures, and explained variance in lexical decision times in addition to what is accounted for by the available French written frequency measures.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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