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EHME: a New Word Database for Research in Basque Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2014

Joana Acha ,
Itziar Laka ,
Josu Landa  and
Pello Salaburu
Joana Acha*
Affiliation:
Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU (Spain)
Itziar Laka
Affiliation:
Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU (Spain)
Josu Landa
Affiliation:
Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU (Spain)
Pello Salaburu
Affiliation:
Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU (Spain)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Joana Acha. Department of Basic Cognitive processes. Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU. Tolosa Hiribidea. 20018. Donostia (Spain). E-mail: joana.acha@ehu.es
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Abstract

This article presents EHME, the frequency dictionary of Basque structure, an online program that enables researchers in psycholinguistics to extract word and nonword stimuli, based on a broad range of statistics concerning the properties of Basque words. The database consists of 22.7 million tokens, and properties available include morphological structure frequency and word-similarity measures, apart from classical indexes: word frequency, orthographic structure, orthographic similarity, bigram and biphone frequency, and syllable-based measures. Measures are indexed at the lemma, morpheme and word level. We include reliability and validation analysis. The application is freely available, and enables the user to extract words based on concrete statistical criteria1, as well as to obtain statistical characteristics from a list of words2.

Keywords

psycholinguisticscorpus linguisticsword frequencyorthographic and phonological structureword statistical measures
Type
Research Article
Information
The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 17 , 2014 , E79
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2014 

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