VOCABPROFILE (KIDS)

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VP-Kids v 1.1 [See lists ] [Get random selections here ]

What is it?: Classic or BNC versions of VP are weak for identifying lexical growth in young children (Horst & Collins, 2006), especially in the crucial K-2 phase. VP-Kids matches children's texts against 10 modified 250-word lists generalized from several empirical studies of children's oral productions (Murphy 1957; Johnson 1971; Hopkins 1979; Moe et al 1982) by Stemach & Williams.

Input mode A: 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 families 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]
DEMOS: NS1 4yr-6mo | NS2 5yr-1mo | NS2 6yr-1mo | NS2 7yr-1mo | ELL1 5yr-0mo | ELL1 6yr-0mo |

Demos from other VPs: SPEECH Adults Kids

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

1. own drive for file; and then 2.

VP concept - Laufer & Nation
Lists - Stemach and Williams Word Express: The first 2500 words of spoken English (Novato, CA: Academic Therapy, 1988); Frog story - Mercer Mayer (NY: Dial, 1967)