LINGUIST List 13.131

Mon Jan 21 2002

FYI: Welsh Lexical Database, Frisian Language Course

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  • Nick Ellis, Welsh lexical database and frequency count
  • Wolf, Frisian language course

    Message 1: Welsh lexical database and frequency count

     Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:44:29 +0000
    From: Nick Ellis <n.ellisbangor.ac.uk>
    Subject: Welsh lexical database and frequency count


    Cronfa Electroneg o Gymraeg (CEG)

    A 1 million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh

    Please circulate to those interested

    This is a word frequency analysis of 1,079,032 words of written Welsh prose, based on 500 samples of approximately 2000 words each, selected from a representative range of text types to illustrate modern (mainly post 1970) Welsh prose writing. It was conceived as providing a Welsh parallel to the Kucera and Francis analysis for American English, and the LOB corpus for British English, in the expectation that such an analysed corpus would provide research tools for a number of academic disciplines: psychology and psycholinguistics, child and second language acquisition, general linguistics, and the linguistics of Modern Welsh, including literary analysis.

    The sample included materials from the fields of novels and short stories, religious writing, children's literature both factual and fiction, non-fiction materials in the fields of education, science, business, leisure activities, etc., public lectures, newspapers and magazines, both national and local, reminiscences, academic writing, and general administrative materials (letters, reports, minutes of meetings).

    The resultant corpus was analysed to produce frequency counts of words both in their raw form and as counts of lemmas where each token is demutated and tagged to its root. This analysis also derives basic information concerning the frequencies of different word classes, inflections, mutations, and other grammatical features.

    Available on-line:

    Ellis, N. C., O'Dochartaigh, C., Hicks, W., Morgan, M., & Laporte, N. (2001). Cronfa Electroneg o Gymraeg (CEG): A 1 million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh. [On-line], Available: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/cb/ceg/ceg_eng.html http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/cb/ceg/ceg_cym.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- -

    - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Ellis, e-mail: N.Ellisbangor.ac.uk | /\ Professor of Psychology, | / \/\ University of Wales, Bangor, Tel: +44 (0)1248 382207 | /\/ \ \ Gwynedd, Fax: +44 (0)1248 382599 | / ======\=\ Wales, LL57 2DG, U.K. | B A N G O R - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.psych.bangor.ac.uk/index.html - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Message 2: Frisian language course

     Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:39:28 +0100
    From: Wolf <hwolffa.knaw.nl>
    Subject: Frisian language course


    Our North Frisian language course is now available on the Internet. A preliminary version can be found at: http://www.fa.knaw.nl > fakgroepen > taalkunde > noardfrysk.

    The site is bilingual German/West Frisian. We are working on interfaces for German, West Frisian, English and Dutch. A printed version and a cd-rom will appear by the end of 2002.

    Comments are welcome! Eric Hoekstra, Ingo Laabs, Henk Wolf

    - --------------------------------------------------------- Henk Wolf hwolffa.knaw.nl (Fryske Akademy) FryskeRiefa.knaw.nl (Fryske Rie) henkwolfaltavista.com (privee) Fryske Akademy, Postbus 54, NL-8900 AB Ljouwert tel. 058-2336918 / 058-2131414, faks 058-2131409