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TAALES: Tool for the Automatic analysis of Lexical Sophistication

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TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs.  TAALES indices have been used to inform models of second language (L2) speaking proficiency, first language (L1) and L2 writing proficiency, spoken and written lexical proficiency, genre differences, and satirical language.

Starting with version 2.2, TAALES provides comprehensive index diagnostics, including text-level coverage output (i.e., the percent of words/bigrams/trigrams in a text covered by the index) AND individual word/bigram/trigram index coverage information. See the User Manual for more information.

TAALES takes plain text files as input (it will process all plain text files in a particular folder) and produces a comma separated values (.csv) spreadsheet that is easily read by any spreadsheet software.

Please use the following citations when referencing TAALES:

Kyle, K. & Crossley, S. A. (2015). Automatically assessing lexical sophistication: Indices, tools, findings, and application. TESOL Quarterly 49(4), pp. 757-786. doi: 10.1002/tesq.194 article

Kyle, K., Crossley, S. A., & Berger, C. (2018). The tool for the analysis of lexical sophistication (TAALES): Version 2.0. Behavior Research Methods 50(3), pp. 1030-1046. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0924-4 article

Most Recent Beta (in development) Version: (TAALES 2.8.1)
(click here for more information)

Most Recent Stable Version: TAALES 2.2 (released 11-2-2016)

TAALES 2.2 User Manual
TAALES 2.2 Index Description Spreadsheet (11-8-2016)

TAALES 2.2 for Mac (not Compatible with Big Sur, will be updated soon)
TAALES 2.2 for Windows (7, 8, & 10; 64-bit)
​TAALES 2.2 for Linux
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TAALES is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License
Older Versions:
TAALES 2.0 (released 10-24-2016)

TAALES 2.0 User Manual
TAALES 2.0 Index Description Spreadsheet
TAALES 2.0 for Mac
TAALES 2.0 for Windows

TAALES 1.4
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TAALES 1.4 User Manual
TAALES 1.4 Index Description Spreadsheet
TAALES 1.4 for Mac
TAALES 1.4 for Windows

TAALES 1.3
Included in the download is the program, a user manual, and a spreadsheet that provides pertinent information for all indices.
TAALES 1.3 for Mac
TAALES 1.3 for Windows
TAALES 1.3 for Linux
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Studies that have used TAALES

Please click here for a list of studies that used or cited TAALES.

Questions, Problems, OR Suggestions?

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