| Title: | Word Frequency Extraction and Summarization |
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Description: | Provides tools to extract word frequencies from the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) corpus. The main function allows users to input a list of words and receive speaker-role-specific frequency counts and a summary of the dataset. The output includes Excel-formatted tables of word counts and metadata summaries such as number of speakers, transcripts, children, and token counts. Useful for researchers studying early language acquisition, corpus linguistics, and speaker role variation. The CHILDES database is maintained at https://childes.talkbank.org/. |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.3.2 |
| Imports: | childesr, readr, dplyr, tidyr, writexl, rlang, magrittr, stats |
| URL: | https://github.com/n-albudoor/childeswordfreq |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/n-albudoor/childeswordfreq/issues |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| VignetteBuilder: | knitr |
| Config/testthat/edition: | 3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2025-04-01 15:53:07 UTC; albudoor.1 |
| Author: | Nahar Albudoor [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Nahar Albudoor <n.albudoor@gmail.com> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2025-04-08 15:20:02 UTC |
Get Word Counts by Speaker Role
Description
Reads a word list CSV and outputs a word frequency Excel file with summary.
Usage
word_counts(
word_list_file,
output_file,
collection = NULL,
language = NULL,
corpus = NULL,
age = NULL,
sex = NULL
)
Arguments
word_list_file |
Path to CSV file with a "word" column. |
output_file |
Path to output Excel (.xlsx) file. |
collection |
Language collection (default = NULL). |
language |
Vector of languages. |
corpus |
Vector of corpora. |
age |
Numeric vector: single value or min/max. |
sex |
"male" and/or "female". |
Value
Writes an Excel file with 2 sheets: word frequencies and summary.
Examples
word_file <- system.file("extdata", "word_list.csv", package = "childeswordfreq")
output_file <- tempfile(fileext = ".xlsx")
word_counts(
word_list_file = word_file,
output_file = output_file,
collection = NULL,
language = "eng",
age = c(18, 36),
sex = NULL
)