ESCOLEX: A grade-level lexical database from European Portuguese elementary to middle school textbooks

Soares, Ana Paula; Medeiros, José Carlos; Simões, Alberto; Machado, João; Costa, Ana; Iriarte, Álvaro; Almeida, José João; Pinheiro, Ana P.; Comesaña, Montserrat

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“…The EP words from the three conditions (O-P+, O-P-, O+P+) were also matched in logarithm frequency, biphone frequency, contextual diversity, length, and orthographic neighbors (all ps > .39) (see Table 2). The values of logarithm word frequency and contextual diversity for EP words were taken from ESCOLEX (Soares et al, 2014; an EP grade-level lexical database that gives numerous word frequency statistics for 1st to 6th grade children [6to 11-year-olds] computed from elementary textbooks) and the values of biphone frequency and length were retrieved from P-PAL (Soares et al, 2015; an EP lexical database that gives numerous word frequency statistics and the computation of several other lexical and sublexical objective and subjective metrics for adults).…”

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Does phonological overlap of cognate words modulate cognate acquisition and processing in developing and skilled readers?

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Very few studies exist on the role of cross-language similarities in cognate word acquisition. Here we sought to explore, for the first time, the interplay of orthography (O) and phonology (P) during the early stages of cognate word acquisition, looking at children and adults with the same level of foreign language proficiency, and by using two variants of the word-association learning paradigm (auditory learning method vs. auditory + written method). Eighty participants (forty children and forty adults, native speakers of European Portuguese [EP]), learned a set of EP-Catalan cognate words and non-cognate words. Among the cognate words, the degree of orthographic and phonological similarity was manipulated. Half of the children and adult participants learned the new words via an L2 auditory and written-L1 word association method, while the other half learned the same words only through an L2 auditory-L1 word association method. Both groups were tested in an auditory recognition task and a go/no-go lexical decision task. Results revealed a disadvantage for children in comparison to adults, which was reduced in the auditory learning method. Furthermore, there was an advantage for cognates relative to non-cognates regardless of the age of participants. Importantly, there were modulations in cognate word processing as a function of the degree of O and P overlap which were restricted to children. The findings are discussed in light of the most relevant bilingual models of word recognition.

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“…Indeed, contrary to the words' objective proprieties, mostly obtained from automatic (computational) procedures applied to large corpora (see, e.g., Soares, Machado, et al, 2015;Soares, Medeiros, et al, 2014, for recent examples of these procedures), collecting subjective proprieties is more demanding and time-consuming. Typically this implies conducting large-scale studies, and thus asking a great number of participants to rate a set of words in a given subjective dimension.…”

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The Minho Word Pool: Norms for imageability, concreteness, and subjective frequency for 3,800 Portuguese words

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Words are widely used as stimuli in cognitive research. Because of their complexity, using words requires strict control of their objective (lexical and sublexical) and subjective properties. In this work, we present the Minho Word Pool (MWP), a dataset that provides normative values of imageability, concreteness, and subjective frequency for 3,800 (European) Portuguese words-three subjective measures that, in spite of being used extensively in research, have been scarce for Portuguese. Data were collected with 2,357 college students who were native speakers of European Portuguese. The participants rated 100 words drawn randomly from the full set for each of the three subjective indices, using a Web survey procedure (via a URL link). Analyses comparing the MWP ratings with those obtained for the same words from other national and international databases showed that the MWP norms are reliable and valid, thus providing researchers with a useful tool to support research in all neuroscientific areas using verbal stimuli. The MWP norms can be downloaded along with this article or from http://p-pal.di. uminho.pt/about/databases.

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“…While the English Lexicon Project (Balota et al, 2007) is the most cited of the lexicons, other languages include Chinese (Sze, Rickard Liow, & Yap, 2014;Tse, Yap, Chan, Sze, Shaoul, & Lin, 2017), Malay (Yap, Rickard Liow, Jalil, & Faizal, 2010), Dutch (Keuleers et al, 2010), and British English (Keuleers, Lacey, Rastle, & Brysbaert, 2012). Similar lexical database publications can be found in the literature covering French (Lété, Sprenger-Charolles, & Colé, 2004), Italian (Barca, Burani, & Arduino, 2002), Arabic (Boudelaa & Marslen-Wilson, 2010), and Portuguese (Soares, Medeiros, Simões, Machado, Costa, Iriarte, & Scomesaña, 2014).…”

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LAB: Linguistic Annotated Bibliography – a searchable portal for normed database information

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This article presents the Linguistic Annotated Bibliography (LAB) as a searchable Web portal to quickly and easily access reliable database norms, related programs, and variable calculations. These publications were coded by language, number of stimuli, stimuli type (i.e., words, pictures, symbols), keywords (i.e., frequency, semantics, valence), and other useful information. This tool not only allows researchers to search for the specific type of stimuli needed for experiments but also permits the exploration of publication trends across 100 years of research. Details about the portal creation and use are outlined, as well as various analyses of change in publication rates and keywords. In general, advances in computational power have allowed for the increase in dataset size in the recent decades, in addition to an increase in the number of linguistic variables provided in each publication.Keywords Database · Stimuli · Online portal · Megastudy · Trends Advances in computational ability and the Internet have propelled research into an era of "big data" that has interesting implications for the field of psycholinguistics, as well as other experimental areas that use normed stimuli for their research. Traditionally, stimuli used for experimental psycholinguistics research were first normed through small inhouse pilot studies, which were then used in many subsequent projects. While economic, the results from these stu dies could be potentially misleading, as the results may be due to the stimuli, rather than experimental manipulation. Small individual lab norming projects may be tied to a lack of funding, time, computational power, or even interest in studying phenomena at the stimuli level. Now, we have the capability to collect, analyze, and publish large datasets for research into memory models (

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ESCOLEX: A grade-level lexical database from European Portuguese elementary to middle school textbooks

Cited by 41 publications

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Does phonological overlap of cognate words modulate cognate acquisition and processing in developing and skilled readers?

Does phonological overlap of cognate words modulate cognate acquisition and processing in developing and skilled readers?

The Minho Word Pool: Norms for imageability, concreteness, and subjective frequency for 3,800 Portuguese words

LAB: Linguistic Annotated Bibliography – a searchable portal for normed database information

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