title: childLex: a lexical database of German read by children.
abstract: This article introduces childLex, an online database of German read by children. childLex is based on a corpus of children's books and comprises 10 million words that were syntactically annotated and lemmatized. childLex reports linguistic norms for lexical, superlexical, and sublexical variables in three different age groups: 6-8 (grades 1-2), 9-10 (grades 3-4), and 11-12 years (grades 5-6). Here, we describe how childLex was collected and analyzed. In addition, we provide information about the distributions of word frequency, word length, and orthographic neighborhood size, as well as their intercorrelations. Finally, we explain how childLex can be accessed using a Web interface.
authors.affiliation: MPRG Reading Education and Development (REaD), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany. sascha.schroeder@mpib-berlin.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Sascha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schroeder
authors.affiliation: Digital Dictionary of the German Language Project, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Kay-Michael
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Würzner
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heister
authors.affiliation: Digital Dictionary of the German Language Project, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Geyken
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
authors.forename: Reinhold
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kliegl
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading
keywords: Child language; Lexical database; Reading development