The Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni is a Southern Ocean long-lived top predator which is regularly captured on an annual fishery operating in the region. By its biological and ecological characteristics, it is a potential bioindicator for the concentrations of trace and rare earth elements in the Antarctic. As these elements are mainly transferred through the diet and a deficiency or excess of these el...
We examined the potential advantage of the lexical databases using subtitles and present SUBTLEX-PT, a new lexical database for 132,710 Portuguese words obtained from a 78 million corpus based on film and television series subtitles, offering word-frequency and contextual diversity measures. Additionally we validated SUBTLEX-PT with a lexical decision study involving 1,920 Portuguese words (and 1,920 non-words)...
In this article, we introduce ESCOLEX, the first European Portuguese children’s lexical database with gradelevel- adjusted word frequency statistics. Computed froma 3.2- million-word corpus, ESCOLEX provides 48,381 word forms extracted from 171 elementary and middle school textbooks for 6- to 11-year-old children attending the first six grades in the Portuguese educational system. Like other children’s grade-le...
Neste trabalho apresentamos as estratégias e os procedimentos adoptados na constituição de uma nova medida de frequência lexical do Português Europeu contemporâneo, o Procura-PALavras (P- -PAL). Baseado num corpus de mais de 227 milhões de palavras, o P-PAL é uma aplicação web que oferece, por defeito, valores de frequência lexical para todas as suas entradas lexicais (lemas e formas) e que permite a computação...
Neste trabalho apresentamos o projecto Procura-PALvras (P-PAL) cujo principal objectivo é desenvolver uma ferramenta electrónica que disponibilize informação sobre índices psicolinguísticos objectivos e subjectivos de palavras do Português Europeu (PE). O P-PAL será disponibilizado gratuitamente à comunidade científica num formato user-friendly a partir de um website a construir para o efeito. Ao utilizar o P-P...
This article describes psycholinguistic lexical databases available in various languages, including English, Spanish and Portuguese. These lexical databases are important for re- searchers in Psycholinguistics and other related areas, providing a pool of experimental materials and allowing for an efficient process of selection of these experimental materials. The process of gathering statistics is slow, resultin...