Keywords:
Corpus linguistics, Reading tasks, Lexical frequency, Online applicationCopyright (c) 2023 CHIMERA: Romance Corpora and Linguistic Studies
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Abstract
Lexical frequency or how often a word is used as compared to others in a language is a
fundamental factor in reading and processing tasks. This has been proved by
experimental research both in adults and children showing the close relationship between
reading comprehension, lexical skill, and lexical decoding. In this work we present an
online application for exploring lexical frequency in Spanish texts compared to reference
corpora. The current version includes all three corpora from Real Academia Española
(CORDE, CREA and CORPES XXI), which allows both diachronic and synchronic
research. This application let users send texts (or words) to be processed and, as a result,
it retrieves a table with each word’s reference frequencies in a selected corpus.
Frequency information includes order in the list of frequencies, and absolute and
normalized frequency. Results are easily downloadable for external processing.
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