Processing: Orthographic frequencies were counted in the multi-billion word Westbury Lab USENET corpus. Then the Westbury Lab's freely available  LINGUA software was used to tabulate the orthographic neighbours for all words in a large dictionary of English words. The standard output of LINGUA includes the following fields for each word in the lexicon:

    WORD:        The word in question.
    ONSIZE:    The number of orthographic neighbors of the word in question.
    ONFREQ:    The average of the orthographic frequencies of all the orthographic neighbors of the word in question.
    [NEIGHBOURFREQS]:   A list of the orthographic frequencies of all the orthographic neighbors of the word in question. [Variable in length]
    [NEIGHBOURS]:     A list of the orthographic neighbors of the word in question. [Variable in length]

List size:   111,624 words

Citation:  Westbury, C. & Shaoul, C. (2007) Orthographic Neighborhoods for over 111,000 English words  Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta (downloaded from http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/downloads/ON.download.html)

Acknowledgments: This work would not have been possible without the hardware and software provided by the TaPoR project. This research is also supported by NSERC.

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