SUBTLEX-NL: A new measure for Dutch word frequency based on film subtitles

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 643-650

  Keuleers, Emmanuel ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^a   New, Boris ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELEVISION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEVISION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957705464     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.3.643     Document Type: Article

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