Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?

Łuniewska, Magdalena; Haman, Ewa; Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Etenkowski, Bartłomiej; Southwood, Frenette; Anđelković, Darinka; Blom, Elma; Boerma, Tessel; Chiat, Shula; Abreu, Pascale Engel de; Gagarina, Natalia; Gavarró, Anna; Håkansson, Gisela; Hickey, Tina; López, Kristine Jensen de; Marinis, Theodoros; Popović, Maša; Thordardottir, Elin; Blažienė, Agnė; Sánchez, Myriam Cantú; Dabašinskiené, Ineta; Ege, Pınar; Ehret, Inger Anne; Fritsche, Nelly Ann; Gatt, Daniela; Janssen, B.; Kambanaros, Maria; Kapalková, Svetlana; Kronqvist, Bjarke Sund; Kunnari, Sari; Levorato, Chiara; Nenonen, Olga; Fhlannchadha, Siobhán Nic; O’Toole, Ciara; Polišenská, Kamila; Pomiechowska, Barbara; Ringblom, Natalia; Rinker, Tanja; Roch, Maja; Savić, Maja; Slančová, Daniela; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria; Ünal-Logacev, Özlem

doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0636-6

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“…As in previous studies (Morrison et al, 1997;Ghyselinck et al, 2000;Pind et al, 2000), this last comparison allowed us to confirm the validity of using adult estimations for AoA. Finally, as for AoA norms in other languages (Stadthagen-Gonzalez and Davis, 2006;Ferrand et al, 2008;Cameirão and Vicente, 2010;Kuperman et al, 2012;Schock et al, 2012;Moors et al, 2013;Łuniewska et al, 2016), our results revealed significant crosslinguistic correlations, suggesting strong cross-language stability of our data.…”

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Italian age of acquisition norms for a large set of words (ItAoA)

Montefinese¹,

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Vigliocco³

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Age of acquisition (AoA) is an important psycholinguistic variable that affects the performance of healthy individuals and patients in a large variety of cognitive tasks. For this reason, it becomes more and more compelling to collect new AoA norms for a large set of stimuli in order to allow better control and manipulation of AoA in future research. An important motivation of the present study is to extend previous Italian norms by collecting AoA ratings for a much larger range of Italian words for which concreteness and semantic-affective norms are now available thus ensuring greater coverage of words varying along these dimensions. In the present study, we collected AoA ratings for 1,957 Italian content words (adjectives, nouns and verbs), by asking healthy adult participants to estimate the age at which they thought they had learnt the word in a Web survey procedure. First, we found high split-half correlation within our sample, suggesting strong internal reliability. Second, our data indicate that the ratings collected in this study are as valid and reliable as those collected in previous studies for Italian across different age populations (adult and children) and other languages. Finally, we analyzed the relation between AoA ratings and other lexical-semantic variables (e.g. word frequency, imageability, valence, arousal) and showed that these correlations were generally consistent with the correlations reported in other normative studies for Italian and other languages. Therefore, our new AoA norms are a valuable source of information for future research in the Italian language. The datasets for this study can be found at the Open Science Framework repository (osf.io/3trg2).

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Italian age of acquisition norms for a large set of words (ItAoA)

Montefinese¹,

Vinson²,

Vigliocco³

et al. 2018

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“…Thus, AoA ratings may be affected by word length and word frequency, as well as by other variables that make some words easier than others (Baayen, Milin, & Ramscar, 2016;Lété & Bonin, 2013). On the other hand, all validation studies thus far have indicated that adult AoA ratings correlate highly with test-based measures of word acquisition order (Biemiller, Rosenstein, Sparks, Landauer, & Foltz, 2014;Brysbaert, 2016;Łuniewska et al, 2016;Morrison, Chappell, & Ellis, 1997).…”

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Test-based age-of-acquisition norms for 44 thousand English word meanings

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Age of acquisition (AoA) is an important variable in word recognition research. Up to now, nearly all psychology researchers examining the AoA effect have used ratings obtained from adult participants. An alternative basis for determining AoA is directly testing children's knowledge of word meanings at various ages. In educational research, scholars and teachers have tried to establish the grade at which particular words should be taught by examining the ages at which children know various word meanings. Such a list is available from Dale and O'Rourke's (1981) Living Word Vocabulary for nearly 44 thousand meanings coming from over 31 thousand unique word forms and multiword expressions. The present article relates these test-based AoA estimates to lexical decision times as well as to AoA adult ratings, and reports strong correlations between all of the measures. Therefore, test-based estimates of AoA can be used as an alternative measure.

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“…Additional research should further examine rater validity and reliability, in balanced categories of raters, to make inter-categorical comparisons possible. The present study utilised a highly specific scale (6-month intervals, as opposed to the 1-to 3-year intervals frequently used for ratings of AoA (Bonin et al, 2003;Cortese & Khanna, 2007;Łuniewska et al, 2016;Morrison et al, 1997), presumably making the task more difficult for the participating raters, and consequently may have affected their validity and reliability scores. Furthermore, as the words included in the survey were generated from both a child-speech corpus and an adult-speech corpus, the nature of the stimuli may have enhanced the complexity of the task at hand.…”

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“…While validity and reliability are occasionally presented within and across groups (Łuniewska et al, 2016;Moors et al, 2013;Schröder et al, 2012), intra-rater reliability, that is, whether the rater is consistent in his or her ratings, and the validity of each individual's ratings is seldom reported in studies obtaining subjective ratings of AoA (Alario & Ferrand, 1999;Bird et al, 2001;Bonin, Peereman, Malardier, Méot, & Chalard, 2003;Cortese & Khanna, 2007;Ferrand et al, 2008;Łuniewska et al, 2016;Moors et al, 2013;Raman et al, 2014;Stadthagen-Gonzalez & Davis, 2006;Zevin & Seidenberg, 2004). Exploring the validity of the instruments (i.e., the individual raters) should be a high priority, in particular when the number of raters is limited, often around 18-35 individuals (Alario & Ferrand, 1999;Brysbaert et al, 2014;Cortese & Khanna, 2007;Della Rosa, Catricalà, Vigliocco, & Cappa, 2010;Ferrand et al, 2008;Łuniewska et al, 2016;Moors et al, 2013;Stadthagen-Gonzalez & Davis, 2006). In their large web-based study, Kuperman, Stadthagen-Gonzalez, and Brysbaert (2012) did explore the validity of each individual rater, by correlating their subjective AoA ratings with previously obtained AoA norms (Stadthagen-Gonzalez & Davis, 2006).…”

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Subjective ratings of age-of-acquisition: exploring issues of validity and rater reliability

2018

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This study aimed to investigate concerns of validity and reliability in subjective ratings of age-of-acquisition (AoA), through exploring characteristics of the individual rater. An additional aim was to validate the obtained AoA ratings against two corpora – one of child speech and one of adult speech – specifically exploring whether words over-represented in the child-speech corpus are rated with lower AoA than words characteristic of the adult-speech corpus. The results show that less than one-third of participating informants’ ratings are valid and reliable. However, individuals with high familiarity with preschool-aged children provide more valid and reliable ratings, compared to individuals who do not work with or have children of their own. The results further show a significant, age-adjacent difference in rated AoA for words from the two different corpora, thus strengthening their validity. The study provides AoA data, of high specificity, for 100 child-specific and 100 adult-specific Swedish words.

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Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?

Cited by 59 publications

References 144 publications

Italian age of acquisition norms for a large set of words (ItAoA)

Italian age of acquisition norms for a large set of words (ItAoA)

Test-based age-of-acquisition norms for 44 thousand English word meanings

Subjective ratings of age-of-acquisition: exploring issues of validity and rater reliability

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