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childeswordfreq

Word and Phrase Frequency Tools for CHILDES

v0.2.0 · Nov 15, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

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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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Dependencies Reverse dependencies cachem childesr dplyr memoise rappdirs readr rlang tibble tidyr writexl childeswordfreq

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new 0.2.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.0 diff Nov 14, 2025
new 0.1.0 Apr 7, 2025