VOCABPROFILE (KIDS)

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VP-Kids v.1.2 [See lists ] [Get random kid-list selections here ]

Classic or BNC/COCA versions of VP are weak at identifying lexical growth in young children (Horst & Collins, 2006) so this dedicated profiler was developed (by Roessingh & Cobb, 2008) to match transcribed child language against ten 250-word lemma lists generalized from several empirical studies of oral productions (Murphy, 1957; Johnson, 1971; Hopkins, 1979; Moe et al, 1982) by Stemach & Williams.

Input mode A: Type/paste text here Title:
INSTRUCTIONS: Type or paste your text here and click the SUBMIT_window button. VP-Kids will tell you how many words the text contains from 10 frequency bands of roughly 250 word lemmas as determined by Stemach and Williams and lemmatized by Lextutor. For a demonstration, enter this text, or one of the sample texts below. TEXT SET-UP General: Include an empty space after every comma or full stop. Research: Deal with spelling errors and proper nouns. SIZE LIMITS: Web input is normally limited to 30,000 characters - use UPLOAD method below for larger files (up to 1000 kb or 1 MB as of Oct 2007; format must be ~.txt; send in straight from your own hard drive). Text is NOT stored on Web VP's server
Boy-Dog-Frog story [PDF] Legend: NS=native speaker; ELL=English language learner
DEMOS: NS-1 4yr-6mo | NS-2 5yr-1mo | NS-3 6yr-1mo | NS-4 7yr-1mo | ELL-1 5yr-0mo | ELL-2 6yr-0mo |

Demos from other VPs: SPEECH Adults Kids

Exceptions: Words to recategorize as 1k (e.g. proper nouns). [Dbl-click words in textarea ; ↑ shared by input modes ↓]
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Input mode B: Upload larger text files (To max 1.5 MB, depending on traffic, processor, etc)

1. on own drive; and then >>> 2.