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wordlists: word lists used in some readability indexes

Description

wordlists is a named list of character vectors where each list element corresponds to a different readability index. These are:
DaleChall
The long Dale-Chall list of 3,000 familiar (English) words needed to compute the Dale-Chall Readability Formula.

Spache
The revised Spache word list (see Klare 1975, 73) needed to compute the Spache Revised Formula of readability (Spache 1974.

Arguments

References

Chall, J. S., & Dale, E. 1995. Readability Revisited: The New Dale-Chall Readability Formula. Brookline Books.

Klare, G. R. 1975. "Assessing readability." Reading Research Quarterly 10(1): 62–102.

Spache, G. 1953. "A new readability formula for primary-grade reading materials." The Elementary School Journal 53: 410-413.