Psycholinguistic norms for 320 fixed expressions (idioms and proverbs) in French

Bonin, Patrick; Méot, Alain; Boucheix, Jean‐Michel; Bugaïska, Aurélia

doi:10.1080/17470218.2017.1310269

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“…The first result worth pointing out is the strong positive correlation between familiarity and the extent to which participants consider that they know the meaning of the idiom (knowledge). Such result is in line with other normative studies that have found moderate or strong positive correlations between these two variables [16,21,25,27], and suggests that the more familiar an idiom is rated, the more confident the speakers are in their knowledge of its meaning. However, in contrast to prior research [6,8,29], no correlation was found here between familiarity and the actual knowledge of the idiom meaning (knowledge_%, the percentage of participants who provided a correct definition of the meaning).…”

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Psycholinguistic and affective norms for 1,252 Spanish idiomatic expressions

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This study provides psycholinguistic and affective norms for 1,252 Spanish idiomatic expressions. A total of 965 Spanish native speakers rated the idioms in 7 subjective variables: familiarity, knowledge of the expression, decomposability, literality, predictability, valence and arousal. Correlational analyses showed that familiarity has a strong positive correlation with knowledge, suggesting that the knowledge of the figurative meaning of an idiom is highly related to its frequency of use. Familiarity has a moderate positive correlation with final word predictability, indicating that the more familiar an idiom is rated, the more predictable it tends to be. Decomposability shows a moderate positive correlation with literality, suggesting that those idioms whose figurative meaning is easier to deduce from their constituents tend to have a plausible literal meaning. In affective terms, Spanish idioms tend to convey more negative (66%) than positive meanings (33%). Furthermore, valence and arousal show a quadratic relationship, in line with the typical U-shaped relationship found for single words, which means that the more emotionally valenced an idiom is rated, the more arousing it is considered to be. This database will provide researchers with a large pool of stimuli for studying the representation and processing of idioms in healthy and clinical populations.

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“…Familiarity also showed a small negative correlation with length in words (see [6,25] for similar results), and a small positive correlation with predictability (see [5,8,16,21,25,27] for…”

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“…For various languages, such as English (Titone and Connine, 1994;Libben and Titone, 2008;Bulkes and Tanner, 2017;Nordmann and Jambazova, 2017), French (Caillies, 2009;Bonin et al, 2013Bonin et al, , 2017, German (Citron et al, 2016), Italian (Tabossi et al, 2011) and Chinese (Li et al, 2016), norms have been published with the aim to increase the reliability of stimulus material in psycholinguistic studies on idioms. These norms provide a number of interesting measures, such as familiarity, decomposability, predictability or emotional valence, for several hundreds of items per language.…”

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The Development of Idiom Knowledge Across the Lifespan

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Knowledge of multi-word expressions, such as break the ice, is an important aspect of language proficiency that so far we have known surprisingly little about. For example, it is largely unknown how much variability there is between speakers with respect to the number of different items that they know, or what factors contribute to their acquisition. This lack of knowledge seriously limits the generalizability of experimental studies on the production and comprehension of multi-word expressions (usually idioms) and generally suggests that there still is a sizable unknown territory of language knowledge to explore. Here, we present the results of two familiarity ratings for a large sample of Dutch idioms and a large number of participants that varied in age between 12 and 86 years old. The data show considerable variation between participants and between idioms. Non-linear mixed-effects regression analyses revealed that the age of participants, but not their education, as well as the frequency and decomposability of the idioms influenced the familiarity scores. Our findings suggest that the knowledge of multiword expressions develops across the lifespan, is acquired from exposure, and-in participants younger than about 40 years of age-varies with item decomposability.

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“…expressions: Bonin, Méot, Boucheix, & Bugaiska, 2018;Bonin, Méot, & Bugaiska, 2013), and, of course, words. Three important aims underpin the collection of norms.…”

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Concreteness norms for 1,659 French words: Relationships with other psycholinguistic variables and word recognition times

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Words that correspond to a potential sensory experience-concrete words-have long been found to possess a processing advantage over abstract words in various lexical tasks. We collected norms of concreteness for a set of 1,659 French words, together with other psycholinguistic norms that were not available for these words-context availability, emotional valence, and arousal-but which are important if we are to achieve a better understanding of the meaning of concreteness effects. We then investigated the relationships of concreteness with these newly collected variables, together with other psycholinguistic variables that were already available for this set of words (e.g., imageability, age of acquisition, and sensory experience ratings). Finally, thanks to the variety of psychological norms available for this set of words, we decided to test further the embodied account of concreteness effects in visual-word recognition, championed by Kousta, Vigliocco, Vinson, Andrews, and Del Campo (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 14-34, 2011). Similarly, we investigated the influences of concreteness in three word recognition tasks-lexical decision, progressive demasking, and word naming-using a multiple regression approach, based on the reaction times available in Chronolex (Ferrand, Brysbaert, Keuleers, New, Bonin, Méot, Pallier, Frontiers in Psychology, 2; 306, 2011). The norms can be downloaded as supplementary material provided with this article.

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Psycholinguistic norms for 320 fixed expressions (idioms and proverbs) in French

Abstract: Hello Sandra, I am just back from a meeting. Thomas was there and, you know, he was all at sea. Well, he has been working hard these last days and All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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Psycholinguistic and affective norms for 1,252 Spanish idiomatic expressions

Psycholinguistic and affective norms for 1,252 Spanish idiomatic expressions

The Development of Idiom Knowledge Across the Lifespan

Concreteness norms for 1,659 French words: Relationships with other psycholinguistic variables and word recognition times

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