Abstract
Databases containing lexical properties on any given orthography are crucial for psycholinguistic research. In the last ten years, a number of lexical databases have been developed for Greek. However, these lack important part-of-speech information. Furthermore, the need for alternative procedures for calculating syllabic measurements and stress information, as well as combination of several metrics to investigate linguistic properties of the Greek language are highlighted. To address these issues, we present a new extensive lexical database of Modern Greek (GreekLex 2) with part-of-speech information for each word and accurate syllabification and orthographic information predictive of stress, as well as several measurements of word similarity and phonetic information. The addition of detailed statistical information about Greek part-of-speech, syllabification, and stress neighbourhood allowed novel analyses of stress distribution within different grammatical categories and syllabic lengths to be carried out. Results showed that the statistical preponderance of stress position on the pre-final syllable that is reported for Greek language is dependent upon grammatical category. Additionally, analyses showed that a proportion higher than 90% of the tokens in the database would be stressed correctly solely by relying on stress neighbourhood information. The database and the scripts for orthographic and phonological syllabification as well as phonetic transcription are available at http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/greeklex/.
Highlights
Lexical databases are essential tools in psycholinguistic research as they provide experimenters with lexical properties to manipulate in experiments and investigate their effects
We first presented a summary of the first version of GreekLex as well as other databases available in Greek and highlighted areas for further development
The database provides part-of-speech information for each entry; accurate orthographic and phonological syllabification as well as syllabic length and stress position; stress and rime neighbourhood measurements that indicate the regularity of stress position for each entry based on its ending
Summary
Lexical databases are essential tools in psycholinguistic research as they provide experimenters with lexical properties to manipulate in experiments and investigate their effects. We calculated the proportion of such cases, by analysing the approximately 500 consonant clusters in IPLR and GreekLex and found that parsing according to the above approach resulted in 64% (320) syllable-initial clusters that fall within this category. The inclusion of the above described variables in GreekLex 2 made it possible to conduct a series of new analyses regarding the predictability of stress position based on different information, such as PoS, as well as the orthographic and phonological endings of words.
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