MRC Psycholinguistic Database

• Description: A machine usable dictionary containing over 150000 words with up to 26 linguistic and psycholinguistic attributes for each (e.g. pronunciation, part of speech, word frequency). Psycholinguistic Database was the basis for the "Oxford Psycholinguistic Database" available for Apple Macs from Oxford University Press.
• Availability: Several versions with different formats:

  Interactive Version of MRC Psycholinguistic Database

  Produces lists of words meeting user-definable selection criteria. Provided by the Dept. of Psychology, University of Western Australia.
  http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/uwa_mrc.htm

  ftp'able MRC Psycholinguistic Database

  Approximately 12M of data.
  ftp://ota.ox.ac.uk/pub/ota/public/dicts/1054/
  README: ftp://ota.ox.ac.uk/pub/ota/public/dicts/1054/readme.
  Information: ftp://ota.ox.ac.uk/pub/ota/public/dicts/info

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