Frequency and Production: The Usage of Feeling Adjectives Among British Children

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Duanhui Yuan
Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.70267/jlce.2026.v3n2.118127

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input frequency, feeling words, children’s vocabulary output

Abstract

Studies have shown that input frequency can positively affect children’s vocabulary development. This current study focused on the frequency effect on children’s output of feeling words. Also, this paper has compared previous findings from external ratings with the current result from a corpus study on the basis of the same wordlist. The findings suggested that British children produced the words with higher input frequency more often. At the same time, they used sensory feeling words more frequently, even though these words were less frequent than emotional words in their input. Also, this study found that children did not use high frequency words in a more complex way than words with lower frequency.

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Yuan, D. (2026). Frequency and Production: The Usage of Feeling Adjectives Among British Children. Journal of Language, Culture and Education, 3(2), 118-127. https://doi.org/10.70267/jlce.2026.v3n2.118127