english.words


A list of 66,330 English words without spaces or dashes from the CELEX lexical database.


Functions and data for use in visual word recognition research:
Computation of neighbors (Hamming and Levenshtein
distances), average distances to neighbors (e.g., OLD20),
and Coltheart's N. Also includes the LD1NN algorithm to
detect bias in the composition of a lexical decision task. Most of
the functions support parallel execution. Supplies wordlists for
several languages. Uses the string distance functions from the stringdist package by Mark van der Loo.

Emmanuel Keuleers

Useful functions for visual word recognition research

english.words function

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Baayen, R. H., Piepenbrock, R., & Gulikers, L. (1995). The CELEX lexical database (release 2) [CD-ROM]. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania.

english.words: A list of English Words

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