SPALEX: A Spanish Lexical Decision Database From a Massive Online Data Collection

Aguasvivas, José Armando; Carreiras, Manuel; Brysbaert, Marc; Mandera, Paweł; Keuleers, Emmanuel; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02156

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“…Additionally, before the experiment, participants were able to voluntarily provide information about their sex, age, country of origin, education level, handedness, number of known foreign languages, best foreign language, and geolocation information. The raw version of this data for native Spanish speakers is presented in the SPALEX database made available in Aguasvivas et al (2018) and it can be retrieved from https://figshare.com/ projects/SPALEX/29722.…”

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“…So far, no attempt has been made to produce a crowdsourced lexical decision megastudy in Spanish, the second most commonly used native language after Chinese (Ethnologue, 2016). The current study presents a detailed analysis of data obtained from more than 20 Spanishspeaking countries across the globe (Aguasvivas et al, 2018; data freely available at https://figshare.com/projects/ SPALEX/29722). Hence, the purpose of this study is to examine how intrinsic and extrinsic factors affect Spanish vocabulary size and word knowledge.…”

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“…Geographic location It is known that language varies across social and regional contexts, which is the subject of study of sociolinguistics and dialectology (Eisenstein, O'Connor, Smith, & Xing, 2010). These variations also suggest that vocabulary, while similar in size, might be composed of different words depending on the location of the speaker, as is the case with Latin American versus Castilian Spanish (Aguasvivas et al, 2018). By using geotagged material, inferences can be drawn on lexical, syntactic, and semantic variations not only across countries but also within regions of the same country (Kulkarni, Perozzi, & Skiena, 2016).…”

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“…The heterogeneity of vocabulary across distinct contexts is the focus of the present paper. We build upon previous work to study the factors affecting the vocabulary size of Spanish speakers through a crowdsourced online lexical decision megastudy (Aguasvivas et al, 2018).…”

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Vocabulary size seems to be affected by multiple factors, including those that belong to the properties of the words themselves and those that relate to the characteristics of the individuals assessing the words. In this study, we present results from a crowdsourced lexical decision megastudy in which more than 150,000 native speakers from around 20 Spanish-speaking countries performed a lexical decision task to 70 target word items selected from a list of about 45,000 Spanish words. We examined how demographic characteristics such as age, education level, and multilingualism affected participants' vocabulary size. Also, we explored how common factors related to words like frequency, length, and orthographic neighbourhood influenced the knowledge of a particular item. Results indicated important contributions of age to overall vocabulary size, with vocabulary size increasing in a logarithmic fashion with this factor. Furthermore, a contrast between monolingual and bilingual communities within Spain revealed no significant vocabulary size differences between the communities. Additionally, we replicated the standard effects of the words' properties and their interactions, accurately accounting for the estimated knowledge of a particular word. These results highlight the value of crowdsourced approaches to uncover effects that are traditionally masked by smallsampled in-lab factorial experimental designs.

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“…More recently, attention has shifted to collecting data by offering participants a game-like format to test their vocabulary. This has resulted in large resources containing data about word knowledge and word recognition times for over 50,000 Dutch words collected on several hundred thousand participants , for over 60,000 English words collected on over a million participants (Brysbaert et al in press), and for over 45,000 Spanish words collected on over 160,000 participants (Aguasvivas et al, 2018).…”

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Resources for mental lexicon research: A delicate ecosystem

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Resources are playing an ever-increasing role in current empirical investigations of the mental lexicon. Notwithstanding their diffusion and widespread application, lexical resources are often taken at face value, and there are limited efforts to better understand the dynamics and implications subtending resource developments, as well as the complex web of relations linking resources to each other. In the present chapter, we argue that describing these dynamics and relations is akin to investigating a complex and delicate ecosystem: resources are not independent and self-contained elements, but are rather the expression of a set of entangled components that span from our everyday language experience to the very scientific theories we develop to understand language.

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SPALEX: A Spanish Lexical Decision Database From a Massive Online Data Collection

Cited by 36 publications

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How do Spanish speakers read words? Insights from a crowdsourced lexical decision megastudy

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