Brulex. Une base de données lexicales informatisée pour le français écrit et parlé

Abstract

Summary : Brulex : A computerized lexical data base for the french language. This paper presents a lexical database developed for experimental research in psycholinguistics. The Brulex system provides orthographic, phonological, grammatical and frequency information for approximately 36 000 French words. It also contains some other useful information to help in selecting experimental materials (uniqueness point, neighborhood count, phonological structure, mean bigram frequency). Key words : experimental psycholinguistics, lexicon, word recognition.

The relation between language and cognition in 3- to 9-year-olds: The acquisition of grammatical gender in French

“…Most of the pseudowords had been used previously in KarmiloV-Smith's (1979) study. The bias value of each ending was based on the data provided by Tucker and colleagues (1977) and was confirmed by extra analyses from the Brulex database (Content, Mousty, & Radeau, 1990). The average lengths of words were equated across conditions.…”

The Role of the Syllable in Lexical Segmentation in French: Word-Spotting Data

“…Thirty French content words of CVC structure, starting with a liquid (e.g., lac, /lak/, lake) and with a mean frequency of 7,361 (range: 34-27,436) occurrences per 100 million, were selected using Brulex, a lexical database for French (Content, Mousty, & Radeau, 1990). These words appeared as targets embedded in final position in CVCCVC bisyllabic nonce carriers.…”

Specificity of inhibitory deficits in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease

“…The material consisted of 16 target words (8 metal words and 8 furniture words) and 16 neutral flanker items (8 vehicles and 8 fishes) taken from Brulex [28] and representing the most frequent category exemplars. The mean number of graphemes in the words in each of the four categories was similar [F(1,12) = 0.05; p > .9].…”