Short research note: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon: A web-based interface to calculate phonological similarity among Spanish words in adults learning Spanish as a foreign language

• Published in: Second language research Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 103 - 112
• Main Authors: Vitevitch, Michael S., Stamer, Melissa K., Kieweg, Douglas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2012; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adult Learning; Adults; Alphabets; Andragogy; Children; Computers; Internet; Language; Language Research; Lexicon; Native Language; Neighborhoods; Nouns; Orthographic Symbols; Phonemes; Phonemics; Phonological similarity; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Research methodology; Researchers; Resistance (Psychology); Second Language Learning; Second Languages; Spanish; Spanish language; Suprasegmentals; Syllables; Verbs; Vocabulary Development; United States > US; Kansas; neighborhood density; Spanish; foreign language learner; on-line database
• ISSN: 0267-6583; 1477-0326
• DOI: 10.1177/0267658311432199

A number of resources provide psycholinguistic researchers with information about the words that the typical child or adult knows in a variety of languages. What is currently not available is a resource that provides information about the words that a typical adult learning a foreign language knows. We created such a resource for Spanish: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon. The present report describes the words contained in this web-accessible resource, and the information about those words provided by the interface. This information is freely accessible at: http://www.people.ku.edu/~mvitevit/BegSpanLex.html