Table 1. .
Summary of corpora measures across languages for Study 1.
| Language | Child’s Age Range | No. Corpora | No. Tokens | No. Types | Word Frequency (per million) | α | β | Pearson’s-r |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British English | 0;2–3;6 | 12 | 6311249 | 27476 | 1 - 303005 (0.16 - 48010.31) | 1.57 | 19.48 | 0.97 |
| North-American English | 0;5–3;6 | 34 | 4876774 | 24573 | 1 - 230355 (0.21 - 47235.12) | 1.52 | 18.34 | 0.965 |
| German | 0;5–3;6 | 7 | 2168002 | 37018 | 1 - 71238 (0.46 - 32858.83) | 1.42 | 12.69 | 0.998 |
| French | 0;11–3;6 | 8 | 1540284 | 19327 | 1 - 59852 (0.65 - 38857.77) | 1.53 | 17.98 | 0.99 |
| Dutch | 1;5–3;6 | 5 | 1036586 | 18717 | 1 - 41646 (0.96 - 40176.12) | 1.48 | 12.63 | 0.998 |
| Japanese | 0;6–3;6 | 6 | 941006 | 25648 | 1 - 45886 (1.06 - 48762.71) | 1.30 | 7.12 | 0.993 |
| Polish* | 0;10–6;11 | 8 | 794183.7 | 44425 | 1 - 32172.19 (1.26 - 40509.76) | 1.16 | 4.04 | 0.997 |
| Spanish | 0;11–3;6 | 12 | 353104 | 10057 | 1 - 13437 (2.83 - 38053.94) | 1.39 | 9.96 | 0.994 |
| Swedish | 1;0–3;6 | 2 | 341280 | 9466 | 1 - 16924 (2.93 - 49589.78) | 1.40 | 7.58 | 0.998 |
| Portuguese | 1;5–3;6 | 2 | 309296 | 7562 | 1 - 21416 (3.23 - 69241.12) | 1.37 | 5.44 | 0.981 |
| Hebrew | 0;8–3;6 | 6 | 300766 | 13801 | 1 - 16048 (3.32 - 53357.09) | 1.19 | 3.69 | 0.996 |
| Norwegian | 1;1–2;9 | 2 | 183658 | 8306 | 1 - 9135 (5.44 - 49739.19) | 1.32 | 6.92 | 0.996 |
| Estonian | 0;9–3;6 | 5 | 167666 | 10057 | 1 - 10344 (5.96 - 61694.08) | 1.21 | 6.02 | 0.956 |
| Danish | 0;11–3;5 | 1 | 155826 | 4102 | 1 - 8421 (6.42 - 54041.05) | 1.50 | 7.71 | 0.997 |
| Mandarin | 1;8–2;3 | 2 | 150852 | 7095 | 1 - 6305 (6.63 - 41795.93) | 1.42 | 11.94 | 0.989 |
| Catalan | 1;1–4;2 | 4 | 132410 | 6416 | 1 - 8051 (7.55 - 60803.56) | 1.30 | 6.27 | 0.985 |
| Summary | Mean = 1.38; SD = 0.13 | Mean = 9.86; SD = 5.13 | Mean = 0.988; SD = 0.013 | |||||
*
For Polish the data is taken from a list including a summary of words and their relative frequencies. Hence the one digit precision.