Description
The Eqol_infra database was developed based on the
EQOL corpus (Stanké et al., 2019). It contains the occurrence
frequencies for 14,800 spelling forms that appear in materials
written for Québec’s primary school students (28 academic books,
24 literature books, 90 extracts from children’s literature). It
also provides a lexical spelling acquisition scale. The
statistical estimates for the orthographic and
graphophonological characteristics presented in Eqol_Infra
are similar to those in Manulex_Infra: frequency and
consistency of grapheme-phoneme and phoneme-grapheme
associations, phonological rime, word length (orthographic,
phonological, graphemic, and syllabic), graphemic complexity,
and orthographic neighborhood of words (Levenshtein distance).
Lexical entries corresponding to proper nouns, onomatopoeia, and
interjections are excluded from analysis. With the exception of
the following points, the coding and analysis principles are
identical to those used for Manulex_Infra (more details
are provided on the Manulex_Infra webpage) :
• reintroduction of the difference between the two ‘a’s (/a/ vs.
/ɑ/), a meaningful distinction in Québec French
• adaptation to the common Québec pronunciation for the
contrasts /a/ vs. /ɑ/ and /o/ vs. /ɔ/
• the final schwa at the end of words is either optional or
removed
The current version is associated with the following publication: Stanké, B., Le Mené, M., Rezzonico, S., Moreau, A. C., Dumais, C., Robidoux, J., Dault, C. et Royle, P. (2019). ÉQOL : Une nouvelle base de données québécoise du lexique du primaire comportant une échelle d’acquisition de l’orthographe lexicale. CORPUS, 19. doi.org/10.4000/corpus.3818 Please cite it appropriately in your work. Thank you also for citing the base version used and the website address.
