LexStat

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LexStat is a program that can calculate various lexical statistics of words and nonwords. Furthermore, the program can generate pseudowords and has useful tools for stimulus selection.

The program can:

• Calculate neighbourhood density
• Calculate neighbourhood frequency
• Calculate positional bigram, trigram, ... frequency
• Calculate letter frequencies
• Calculate shared neighbours between primes and targets
• Calculate the number of bodies, antibodies
• Generate pseudowords
• Find words within words
• Read more than one lexicon file (e.g., English and Dutch) and find interlingual homographs
• And more...

Current version: 2.69 (download full version: lexstat.zip)

The program is written in C and runs on MacOS X. Please do not distribute this program without my permission.

Manual (pdf file)

Below you can find a Quicktime movie that shows you, 1) how to download LexStat and a lexicon, and 2) how to start LexStat.

Last updated: 12/11/08