Studies in Word Listing: Testing for Group Differences in Category Norms

Brown, W. P.; Davies, Gwen

doi:10.1080/03033910.1976.10557624

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“…Our finding that no significant differences were observed between the two participant groups, despite their differences in culture and language, diverges from studies showing cross-cultural differences in cognitive functions (Chiu, 1972; Brown and Davies, 1976; Hasselhorn et al, 1990; Lin et al, 1990; Dick et al, 2002; Ji et al, 2004; Yoon et al, 2004; Gutchess et al, 2006; Boone et al, 2007). A potential explanation may be that culture-related differences are task- (or even category-) specific and that the semantic organization of the lexicon is mostly comparable across cultures.…”

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“…Cultural differences in the organization of semantic categories have been found not only between cultures that are distant from each other, such as East Asian and Western cultures (Lin, Schwanenflugel, and Wisenbaker, 1990; Ji et al, 2004; Yoon, Feinberg, Hu, Gutchess, Hedden, Chen, Jing, Cui, and Park, 2004; Gutchess et al, 2006), but also within Western cultures (Brown and Davies, 1976; Hasselhorn, Jaspers, and Hernando, 1990). The familiarity or centrality of an item in a culture is an important factor in determining the semantic category structure in children (Hasselhorn et al, 1990; Lin et al, 1990), younger adults (Brown and Davies, 1976; Schunn and Vera, 2004; Yoon et al, 2004), and older adults (Yoon et al, 2004).…”

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“…The familiarity or centrality of an item in a culture is an important factor in determining the semantic category structure in children (Hasselhorn et al, 1990; Lin et al, 1990), younger adults (Brown and Davies, 1976; Schunn and Vera, 2004; Yoon et al, 2004), and older adults (Yoon et al, 2004). Nevertheless, the most typical exemplars of a semantic category appear consistent across cultures, at least for some categories, such as natural kinds (e.g.…”

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“…However, they also found that the frequency of other animal names demonstrated regional and cultural differences among the groups: ‘ox’ and ‘buffalo’ were common for the Vietnamese speakers, ‘donkey’ for the Spanish speakers, ‘rat’ for the Chinese speakers, and ‘giraffe’ for the English speakers. Environment can also influence the vocabulary of speakers of the same language living in different areas of the same country (Brown and Davies, 1976; Brucki and Rocha, 2004). For example, Brucki and Rocha (2004) demonstrated that Brazilian-Portuguese speaking participants living in a city frequently produced ‘horse’ and ‘dog’, whereas those living in rural and rainforest areas produced more instances of ‘jaguar’ and ‘monkey’.…”

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Semantic verbal fluency in two contrasting languages

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Hyun

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Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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This cross-linguistic study investigated Semantic Verbal Fluency (SVF) performance in 30 American English-speaking and 30 Finnish-speaking healthy elderly adults with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Despite the different backgrounds of the participant groups, remarkable similarities were found between the groups in the overall SVF performance in two semantic categories (animals and clothes), in the proportions of words produced within the first half (30 seconds) of the SVF tasks, and in the variety of words produced for the categories. These similarities emerged despite the difference in the mean length of words produced in the two languages (with Finnish words being significantly longer than English words). The few differences found between the groups concerned the types and frequencies of the 10 most common words generated for the categories. It was concluded that culture and language differences do not contribute significantly to variability in SVF performance in healthy elderly people.

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Semantic verbal fluency in two contrasting languages

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“…Normative studies of categorical representation can provide significant information regarding the content and the organization of stable knowledge structures in our semantic memory (e.g., Barsalou, 1985). They can also be of help in capturing age-related (e.g., Carneiro, Albuquerque, & Fernandez, 2008;Howard, 1980;Price & Connolly, 2006;Yoon et al, 2004) or cross-cultural (e.g., Brown, & Davies, 1976;Yoon et al, 2004) variations in semantic representations. Furthermore, categorical norms provide measurable indices of category exemplars that can be very useful in several areas of experimental research.…”

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Normative data for the 56 categories of Battig and Montague (1969) in Spanish

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Knowledge of specific characteristics of verbal material is imperative in cognitive research, and this need calls for periodical updating of normative data. With this aim, and considering that the most recent Spanish-language category norms for adults date back to more than 30 years ago, and that they do not include some very common categories, a new normative study was conducted. In this study, production data for exemplars in the 56 categories of Battig and Montague (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 80, 1-46, 1969) were collected from a pool of 284 young adults who were native speakers of Spanish using an exemplar production task. With the goal of providing a useful tool for cognitive research to be conducted with Spanish-speaking samples, indices of frequency, rank, and lexical availability for the exemplars of each category are provided in a computerized database. The norms described are available for downloading as supplemental material with this article.

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Category Norms as a Function of Culture and Age: Comparisons of Item Responses to 105 Categories by American and Chinese Adults.

Yoon

Feinberg

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Psychology and Aging

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Understanding how aging influences cognition across different cultures has been hindered by a lack of standardized, cross-referenced verbal stimuli. This study introduces a database of such item-level stimuli for both younger and older adults, in China and the United States, and makes 3 distinct contributions. First, the authors specify which item categories generalize across age and/or cultural groups, rigorously quantifying differences among them. Second, they introduce novel, powerful methods to measure between-group differences in freely generated ranked data, the rank-ordered logit model and Hellinger Affinity. Finally, a broad archive of tested, cross-linguistic stimuli is now freely available to researchers: data, similarity measures, and all stimulus materials for 105 categories and 4 culture-by-age groups, comprising over 10,000 fully translated unique item responses.

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Studies in Word Listing: Testing for Group Differences in Category Norms

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Semantic verbal fluency in two contrasting languages

Semantic verbal fluency in two contrasting languages

Normative data for the 56 categories of Battig and Montague (1969) in Spanish

Category Norms as a Function of Culture and Age: Comparisons of Item Responses to 105 Categories by American and Chinese Adults.

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