The childeswordfreq package provides a simple, reproducible workflow for
extracting word and phrase frequencies from the CHILDES database using the
childesr API.
Maintainer: Nahar Albudoor n.albudoor@gmail.com
The main user-facing functions are:
word_counts() for word and stem frequencies by speaker role, with
optional normalization and Zipf scaling, exported to Excel workbooks.
phrase_counts() for counts of multi-word expressions in utterance text,
with simple wildcard support and optional normalization.
Optional on-disk caching can be enabled via cwf_cache_enable() to speed up
repeated queries, and disabled with cwf_cache_disable(). The current cache
status can be checked with cwf_cache_enabled().
All queries are performed live against CHILDES through childesr; no local
copy of the corpora is required.
Useful links: