Assessing the usefulness of Google Books' word frequencies for psycholinguistic research on word processing

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Google Books ngrams; Lexical decision; SUBTLEX; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051970752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00027     Document Type: Article

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