WordPools (version 1.0-1)

TWP: The Toronto Word Pool

Description

The Toronto Word Pool consists of 1080 words in various grammatical classes together with a variety of normative variables. The TWP contains high frequency nouns, adjectives, and verbs taken originally from the Thorndike-Lorge (1944) norms. This word pool has been used in hundreds of studies at Toronto and elsewhere.

Usage

data(TWP)

source

Friendly, M., Franklin, P., Hoffman, D. & Rubin, D. The Toronto Word Pool, Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 1982, 14(4), 375-399. http://datavis.ca/papers/twp.pdf.

Details

The last 13 words in the list are alternative Canadian spellings of words listed earlier, and have duplicate itmno values.

References

Kucera and Francis, W.N. (1967). Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English. Providence: Brown University Press. Landauer, T. K., & Streeter, L. A. Structural differences between common and rare words: Failure of equivalent assumptions for theories of word recognition. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973, 11, 119-131.

Examples

data(TWP)
str(TWP)
summary(TWP)

# select low imagery, concreteness and frequency words
R <- list(imagery=c(1,5), concreteness=c(1,4), frequency=c(0,30))
pickList(TWP, R)