Oral frequency norms for 67,979 Spanish words

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 449-458

  Alonso, María Angeles ^a   Fernandez, Angel ^b   Díez, Emiliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Frequency estimates; Spanish norms; Spoken word frequency; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79956264118     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0062-3     Document Type: Article

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