title: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon: A Web-based interface to calculate phonological similarity among Spanish words in adults learning Spanish as a foreign language.
abstract: A number of resources provide psycholinguistic researchers with information about the words that the typical child or adult knows in a variety of languages. What is currently not available is a resource that provides information about the words that a typical adult learning a foreign language knows. We created such a resource for Spanish: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon. The present report describes the words contained in this web-accessible resource, and the information about those words provided by the interface. This information is freely accessible at: http://www.people.ku.edu/~mvitevit/BegSpanLex.html.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Kansas.
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Vitevitch
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Kansas.
authors.forename: Melissa K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Stamer
authors.affiliation: Center for Biobehavioral Neurosciences in Communication Disorders, University of Kansas.
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kieweg
keywords: Spanish; foreign language learner; neighborhood density; on-line database