{"id":311,"date":"2016-07-04T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/?page_id=311"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:52:16","slug":"silex","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/silex\/","title":{"rendered":"SILEX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n SILEX\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

The Silex database is a collection of three types of Excel workbooks: a series of Stimuli Selectors<\/a> that allow researchers to select words based on a variety of statistics and word characteristics; a Table Generator<\/a> that allows researchers to build frequency and probability tables by selecting specific phonological and orthographic units; and a Master File<\/a>, from which all statistics were derived, and that allows interested users to compute other statistics. As such, Silex is a flexible tool and a rich source of information relevant to the study of spelling in general, and silent-letter endings in particular. For a demonstration of the novelty and utility of Silex, see Gingras & S\u00e9n\u00e9chal (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silex was derived from two existing databases, namely Manulex-infra<\/a> (Peereman et al., 2007) and Lexique 3.80<\/a> (New et al., 2004). Given this origin, any reference to Silex must include a reference to Manulex-infra, Lexique 3.80, or both. These databases were selected because they are based on large and recent corpora targeted to completely different audiences. The Manulex-infra corpus comprises 54 children schoolbooks and is divided into grade-specific corpora, while Lexique 3.80 includes a corpus of 218 adult novels. Silex, the resulting unified database, comprises a total of 119,609 word entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latest version: Silex 1.1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silex 1.1 includes\u00a0four additional\u00a0variables regarding the number and frequency of homophones for each word in the Stimuli Selectors. For more details on this update, see the\u00a0User Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Cite Silex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To cite Silex, use this reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gingras, M., & S\u00e9n\u00e9chal, M. (2016). Silex: A database for silent-letter endings in French words. Bevahior Research Methods<\/em>. Advance online publication. doi:10.3758\/s13428-016-0832-z<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do not forget the reference to Manulex-infra, Lexique 3.80, or both:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New, B., Pallier, C., Brysbaert, M., & Ferrand, L. (2004). Lexique 2: A new French lexical database. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36,<\/em> 516\u2013524.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peereman, R., L\u00e9t\u00e9, B., & Sprenger-Charolles, L. (2007). Manulex-infra: Distributional characteristics of grapheme-phoneme mappings, and infralexical and lexical units in child-directed written material. Behavior Research Methods, 39,<\/em> 593\u2013603.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Silex database is a collection of three types of Excel workbooks: a series of Stimuli Selectors that allow researchers to select words based on a variety of statistics and word characteristics; a Table Generator that allows researchers to build frequency and probability tables by selecting specific phonological and orthographic units; and a Master File, from which all statistics were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cllr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}