Word and Phrase Frequency Tools for CHILDES
childeswordfreq: Word and Phrase Frequency Tools for CHILDES
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Count phrase matches in CHILDES utterances (experimental)
Get word counts by speaker role
Tools for extracting word and phrase frequencies from the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) database via the 'childesr' API. Supports type-level word counts, token-mode searches with simple wildcard patterns and part-of-speech filters, optional stemming, and Zipf-scaled frequencies. Provides normalization per number of tokens or utterances, speaker-role breakdowns, dataset summaries, and export to Excel workbooks for reproducible child language research. The CHILDES database is maintained at <https://talkbank.org/childes/>.
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