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eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson) writes:


>A friend of mine would like to do some word frequency/trigram work on
>an IBM PC.  Does anyone know of software (commercial or not) that is
>available?

There is always the Medical Research Council's Psycholinguistics database.
This is an 11Meg dictionary which comes with a group of Unix programs to 
allow you to extract words based on lingustic parameters (e.g. length
and frequency) that you set.  I include the output of options from one 
of the access programs.  Perhaps your friend could prepare the files he
wanted on a Unix machine then download them to the IBM PC.


Script command is started on Tue Aug 04 13:43:37 1992
.dict
1 % Usage: dict -a N [ ... -z N] -A [... V][X]

MRC Psycholinguistic Database - mrc2
see QJEP 1981, 33A, 497-505 

-File filename - non-default input file

Output selection:
-A NLET number of letters
-B NPHON number of phonemes
-C NSYL number of syllables
-D K-F-FREQ Kucera-Francis written frequency
-E K-F-NCATS Kucera-Francis number of categories
-F K-F-NSAMP Kucera-Francis number of samples
-G T-L-FREQ Thorndyke-Lorge written Frequency
-H BROWNF Brown verbal frequency
-I FAM Familiarity
-J CONC Concreteness
-K IMAG Imagery
-L MEANC Mean Colerado (Meaningfulness)
-M MEANP Mean Pavio (Meaningfulness)
-N AOA Age of Aquisition
-O TQ2 Type
-P WTYPE   Part of Speech
-Q PDWTYPE Common part of speech
-R ALPHSYL Alphasyllable
-S STATUS
-T VAR Varient phoneme
-U CAP Capitalisation of words
-V IRREG Irregular plural
-W WORD
-X PHON Phonetic transcription
-Y DPHON Edited phonetic transcription
-Z STRESS
-entry The whole entry

Restriction by category

You specify the max and min on each scale
 
-nletmax N  max length 
-nletmin N  min length
-nphonmax N  max num phonemes
-nphonmin N  min num phonemes
-nsylmax N  max num syllables
-nsylmin N  min num syllables
-kffreqmax N  max kf frequency
-kffreqmin N  min kf frequency  > 0
-kfncatsmax N  max kf number categories
-kfncatsmin N  min kf number categories
-kfnsampmax N  max kf number samples
-kfnsampmin N  min kf number samples
-t-lmax N  max thorndyke-lorge
-t-lmin N  min thorndyke-lorge
-brownfmax N  max Brown verbal frequency
-brownfmin N  min Brown verbal frequency
-fammax N  max familiarity  < 700
-fammin N  min familiarity  > 100
-concmax N  max concreteness < 700
-concmin N  min concreteness > 100
-imagmax N  max imagability  < 700
-imagmin N  min imagability  > 100
-meancmax N  max mean Colorado meaningfulness < 700
-meancmin N  min mean Colorado meaningfulness > 700
-meanpmax N  max mean pavio meaningfulness < 700
-meanpmin N  min pavio meaningfulness > 100
-aoamax N  max age of aquisition  < 700
-aoamin N  min age of aquisition  > 100

 Select entries which include (+) or exclude (-) values (arguments) for linguistic properties (flags)
 
-+TYPE Q2
-+IRREG ZBYPN
-+VAR BO
-+ALPH SPHAT
-+STATUS $ACDEFHOPQRSW
-+PS NJVARCUIPO
-+PD NJVO
-+CAP C

Sorry about the control-chars, if this is useful then I can post ftp
address for the file.

Shiv
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