Table 3 Frequency of multimorphemic and monomorphemic words in the CYP-LEX corpus

From: Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning

  

The CYP-LEX age band

  

7–9

10–12

13+

Multimorphemic words

N distinct words

17,624

22,564

27,555

Encountered ≤ 5 times

50%

42%

35%

Encountered ≥ 100 times

8%

11%

15%

Monomorphemic words

N distinct words

21,517

24,801

27,004

Encountered ≤ 5 times

30%

24%

18%

Encountered ≥ 100 times

23%

29%

36%

  1. For each CYP-LEX age band, the table reports the number (N) of distinct multi- and monomorphemic words, and the percentage of words among them that are used either 5 times or less, or 100 times or more, across the 400 books in this age band.
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