I'm looking for word databases, mainly in English and Swedish, which contain lists of words associated with the ages where they are typically learned.
WordNet linkage is a big bonus.
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words.sf.net doesn't quite do what you want (it assigns a "level" to each word and is English only), but might be a start. – Barry Carter Apr 24 '17 at 12:08
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English
Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words (2012):
Age-of-acquisition, imagery, concreteness, familiarity, and ambiguity measures for 1,944 words (1980):
- Springer link
- List of words is within the article, but see also 3.
Compilation and comparison of many sources (50,000 words, 2012):
- Description, also contains links.
Swedish
- Swedish and English word ratings of
imageability, familiarity and age of acquisition
are highly correlated (99 words, mostly nouns, 2015):
- Free access
- List of words is within the article
The authors provide bibliography, there are no references to more eleborative lists of Swedish words, but there are references to lists of Norwegian words.
Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words? (2016):
- Springer link
- List of Swedish words (starting from page 31)
Wordbank (710 Swedish words and combinations of sounds)
According to Kuperman, Stadthagen-Gonzalez and Brysbaert:
English word AoA
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age 4.38
learning 4.44
acquisition 13.63
answered Oct 12 '17 at 11:21
