Although this is interesting, I think that I would be more interested in having them provide a search box in which I can fill out criteria, as some other websites do, such as 2-syllable nouns and ask them to list the 100 most and least frequent.
I don't see a way to do this; do any of you see a way to do it? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edu<mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu> ________________________________ From: Mike Palij [m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 4:41 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [tips] The Mother Of All Word Frequency Databases Google, which has been digitalizing the book collections of the world, has created a database that allows one to examine the frequency with which words appear as well as their frequency overtime. There is a NY Times article on this (which misidentifies Steven Pinker as a "linguist"; people in the humanities seem perplexed about whether such a database would be of any use to them); see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a26&pagewanted=all There is an article in Science by the people who worked on the database that can be viewed here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/15/science.1199644 The Google database can be accessed here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ And data from the database can be downloaded; instructions on how to do this can be found here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0&n=T&l=tips&o=7272 or send a blank email to leave-7272-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=7376 or send a blank email to leave-7376-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
