[R-lang] word frequency covariate question

[Ray Becker]

Dear R-list members,

I am studying the first-pass gaze duration for sentences beginning with 
either "Before" or "After"; these word-regions are my interest areas. 
However, the frequency between these words is 154,000 hits in the corpus 
for "After" and only 57,000 for "Before". How do I partial-out the 
variance due to word frequency. I tried to do simple random regressions 
for each participant, as I usually do when comparing one group of 
items/sentences with another, but when there are only two words, then it 
essentially amounts to dummy coding the variables that I am contrasting 
using their frequency as a the coding scheme and leaving no residual 
variance.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Best,
-Ray Becker

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