HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children

Aris Terzopoulos; Lynne Duncan; Mark A.J. Wilson; Georgia Niolaki; Jackie Masterson

doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0698-5

HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children

Aris Terzopoulos, Lynne Duncan, Mark A.J. Wilson, Georgia Niolaki, Jackie Masterson

School of Psychological, Social and Behavioural Sciences

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In this article, we introduce HelexKids, an online written word database for Greek-speaking children in primary education (grades 1 to 6). The database is organised on a grade by grade basis and on a cumulative basis by combining grade 1 with grades 2 to 6. It provides values for: Zipf, frequency per million, dispersion, estimated word frequency per million, standard word frequency contextual diversity, orthographic Levenshtein distance and lemma frequencies. These values are derived from 116 textbooks used in primary education in Greece and Cyprus producing a total of 68,692 different word types. HelexKids has been developed to assist researchers in studying language development, educators in selecting age-appropriate items for teaching as well as writers and authors of educational books for Greek/Cypriot children. The database is open access and can be searched online at http://www.helexkids.org

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-96
Number of pages	14
Journal	Behavior Research Methods
Volume	49
Issue number	1
Early online date	28 Jan 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0698-5
Publication status	Published - Feb 2017

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Word database
Greek language
Children
Frequency
Contextual diversity

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Intervention for a lexical reading and spelling difficulty in two Greek-speaking primary age children: Lexical intervention targeting spelling
Terzopoulos, A., Niolaki, G. & Masterson, J., 15 Mar 2020, In: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 30, 3, p. 371-392 22 p.
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