Lexical characteristics of written language input across primary grades: An analysis of a Dutch corpus based lexicon

Publication date: February 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 49Author(s): Marlies de Zeeuw, Franc Grootjen, Gerrit Jan Kootstra, Agnes TellingsAbstractThe lexical written language input aimed at beginning readers may influence reading success. We analyzed a lexicon based on a corpus of Dutch reading materials for primary school children to gain insight into the frequency distribution of different word types, i.e. words with similar word characteristics, both per grade and across grades. The frequencies of monomorphemic, concrete words and of polysemous words remained relatively stable, whereas that of multimorphemic and monomorphemic abstract words increased across grades. Within each grade, multimorphemic and monomorphemic, abstract words had lower frequencies than monomorphem...

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