Re: [kidsgames] word familiarity

[Dennis Lee <mudpup@telepath.com>]

Paul Kienzle wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> 
> >           The MRC Psycholinguistic Database: Machine Usable Dictionary
> >           and  utility  programs  are  available for research purposes
> >           from the Oxford Text Archive as item 1054 on their list at a
> >           nominal fee to cover handling costs. Their address is:
> >
> >           Oxford Text Archive
> >           Oxford University Computing Services,
> >           13 Banbury Road,
> >           Oxford OX2 6NN
> >           U.K.
> >
> >           Tel: Oxford (01865) 273238
> >
> > So probably not usable without a lot of hassle.
> 
> Too bad...
> 
> >  As for the other, almost
> > certainly not, but I will ask.
> 
> Thank you for asking.  Some times we are suprised by what we can get :)
> 
> >  There must surely be direct studies of
> > age appropriateness in words.  For one thing, I can think of numerous
> > extremely familiar four letter words which are neither appropriate, nor
> > familiar (hopefully) to my three-year-old.
> >
> 
> Well I've found YAWL (Yet another word list) that is a word gamers
> dictionary (it is Public Domain and therefore useable).  I think we
> should all grab it and mark it up as best we can for age appropriateness
> and see where it takes us. (get it here
> http://members.tripod.com/~the_grendel/yawl-0.1.tar.gz).  Any suggestions
> on how to mark it up/divide it up?
> 
> Might be something to get into cvs, alas cvs has not come through yet.
> 
> <snip>

I had better luck getting it here
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/yawl-0.1.tar.gz

Dennis
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