10000 Random Words File

An analysis of 10,000 random English words reveals that the mental lexicon’s form differs dramatically from the content of everyday language. The average random word is 9.3 letters long, has 2.9 syllables, and is likely a noun. Short, common words like ‘the’ and ‘of’ are statistically rare in the lexicon when sampled uniformly. These findings serve as a null hypothesis for studies comparing language production (corpus data) against language competence (lexicon data). Future work should extend this analysis to random samples from spoken language corpora and cross-linguistic comparisons.

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