Frequency dictionary of Italian words

Juilland, Alphonse

doi:10.1515/9783110868937

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“…According to his estimation, out of all the Tuscan words derived from Latin etyma having one or more intervocalic voiceless stops, only about 8-13% show voicing. His figures are based on counts from three different sources of data: "the entries under R, S and T in the REW [Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch]" (Izzo 1980: 145), which display voicing in 12.3% of the relevant items (17 out of 138); the first 500 words in the frequency list of Juilland & Traversa (1973) (a frequency dictionary of Italian), in which 12.8% of the relevant words (10 out of 78) display a voiced outcome; and "a small sample of Tuscan texts" (Izzo 1980: 146), where voicing only reaches 8.3% (however, the last figure is not directly comparable to the other two as it measures frequency of usage rather than lexical frequency). These results suggest that if Tuscan intervocalic voiceless stops underwent voicing as in the Western Romance languages, an implausibly large (not to say huge) level of learned reaction to voicing should be assumed.…”

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The voicing of intervocalic stops in Old Tuscan and probabilistic sound change

Canalis

2014

Folia Linguistica

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The article examines the dual outcome of Latin intervocalic /p t k/ in Old Tuscan. While these stops remain voiceless in most of the Tuscan lexicon, a significant number of words are voiced. The prevailing opinion is that preservation of voicelessness is the native outcome, and that the words displaying voicing were borrowed from Romance languages in which intervocalic voicing was systematic. However, a number of facts militate against this hypothesis, including the presence of voicing in Tuscan words that are unattested or maintain a voiceless stop in the supposed donor languages. The results of a corpus-based analysis of an Old Tuscan lexicon show that the distribution of the voiced outcomes is phonologically conditioned (contra the borrowing hypothesis), as they are more likely if the stop was velar, next to low(er) vowels, next to stress and if followed by a liquid consonant. These results are also an example of sound change with clear and fine-grained phonological conditioning but a non-systematic outcome; irregularity was probably caused by the allophonic nature of Old Tuscan voicing and by its interaction with another lenition process.

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Section: Frequency Of Voicelessness Retentionmentioning

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The voicing of intervocalic stops in Old Tuscan and probabilistic sound change

Canalis

2014

Folia Linguistica

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“…Outre l'incontournable erreur de mesure, deux facteurs peuvent tempérer la corrélation entre ces variables, soit la désuétude des mots et le comportement de différentes classes de locuteurs. Les valeurs de fréquence objective telles que rapportées par Baudot (1992); Engwall (1984); Imbs (1971) ou Juilland et al (1970) ont généralement été calculées à partir de documents publiés anté-rieinurement aux années 1970. On observe, dans certains cas, une surestimation de la fréquence d'occurrence de mots qu'on considère aujourd'hui comme étant rares et une sous-estimation de la fré quence d'occurrence de mots couramment employés aujourd'hui alors que ceux-ci étaient peu connus avant les années 1970.…”

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Normes d’imagerie et de fréquence subjective pour 1 760 mots monosyllabiques de la langue française.

Gonthier

Desrochers

Thompson

et al. 2009

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne

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This study aimed at providing subjective frequency and imageability norms for a sample of 1,760 monosyllabic French words and thereby, increasing the pool of normative data available for research in cognitive science and language processing. The results indicate that the reliability of the estimates is high, with coefficients ranging between .93 and .99 for the frequency and imageability ratings. External validity was investigated by calculating correlations with ratings drawn from all similar studies and for which the number of shared items was sufficient. These coefficients vary between .73 and .88 for subjective frequency and between .64 and .97 for imageability. The correlation between subjective frequency and imageability in the present study was significant and relatively high (r = .64). The implications of these results for the selection of experimental stimuli for research are discussed.

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“…It is well known (see, e.g., Juilland et al, 1970;Sciarone, 1979) that the proportion of words belonging to the different word classes changes as the frequency falls. The first 1,000 words include many grammatical words (prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, pronouns) and adverbs.…”

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Testing the Development of French Word Knowledge by Advanced Dutch- and English-Speaking Learners and Native Speakers

Greidanus¹,

Beks²,

Wakely³

2005

The Modern Language Journal

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The present study is a continuation of the work presented in the 2001 article by Greidanus and Nienhuis. In the current study, we also examine the quality of word knowledge among advanced learners of French as a second language (L2) by means of a word associates test. We studied the development of word knowledge among 6 groups of university-level participants, who were (a) native speakers of French and (b) learners of French as a foreign language with 2 different first languages (L1s), Dutch and English. The format of the test differed from that used in the 2001 Greidanus and Nienhuis study as follows: (a) The tested words were less frequently used French words; (b) the participants were native speakers of French in addition to two categories of advanced learners of French; (c) the number of associate words (fixed or not) was an independent variable. The findings showed that both native and nonnative speakers of French progressed in deep-word knowledge when the results of third-and fourth-year students were compared with those of first-year students. Although the test contained a considerable number of French-English cognates, the L1 English learners did not perform better than the Dutch learners. The words tested were not noticeably more difficult when chosen from the 10,000 word level rather than from the 5,000 word level.IN RECENT YEARS, DEPTH OF LEXICAL knowledge has become a matter of growing interest. By depth of lexical knowledge we mean all the knowledge that a speaker can have about a given word. Nation (1990) distinguished four dimensions of lexical knowledge: form (oral, written), position (grammatical, collocations), function (frequency, appropriateness), and meaning (concept and associations). There are no tests that examine all these aspects of lexical knowledge concurrently. Tests aiming to measure the vocabulary knowledge of advanced learners concentrate on grammatical and semantic aspects.

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Frequency dictionary of Italian words

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The voicing of intervocalic stops in Old Tuscan and probabilistic sound change

The voicing of intervocalic stops in Old Tuscan and probabilistic sound change

Normes d’imagerie et de fréquence subjective pour 1 760 mots monosyllabiques de la langue française.

Testing the Development of French Word Knowledge by Advanced Dutch- and English-Speaking Learners and Native Speakers

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