Bernard Lété|Liliane Sprenger-Charolles|Pascale Colé
MANULEX: A grade-level lexical database from French elementary school readers
French National Centre for Scientific Research|Université Paris Cité|French National Centre for Scientific Research|Université Savoie Mont Blanc|French National Centre for Scientific Research
article presents manulex webaccessible database provides gradelevel word frequency lists nonlemmatized lemmatized words 48886 23812 entries respectively computed 19 million words taken 54 french elementary school readers word frequencies provided four levels first grade g1 second grade g2 third fifth grades g35 grades g15 frequencies computed following methods describedby carroll davies richman 1971 zeno ivenz millard duwuri 1995 four statistics level f overall word frequencyd index dispersion across selectedreadersu estimated frequencyper million words andsfi standard frequency index database also provides number letters word syntactic category information manulex intended useful tool studying language development selection stimuli based precise frequency norms researchers artificial intelligence also use source information natural language processing simulate written language acquisition children finally may serve educational purpose providing basic vocabulary lists