Subjective frequency estimates for 2,938 monosyllabic words

Balota, David A.; Pilotti, Maura; Cortese, Michael J.

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“…Furthermore, both appear to be weaker than AoA. More recent studies suggest that rated frequency may capture information in addition to that seen in objective frequency measures (Balota, Pilotti, & Cortese, 2001). Our results suggest that rated frequency is a better predictor of RTs than is objective frequency.…”

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Age of acquisition and word frequency: Determinants of object-naming speed and accuracy

Meschyan

Hernández

2002

Mem Cogn

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Age of acquisition and word frequency: Determinants of object-naming speed and accuracy

Meschyan

Hernández

2002

Mem Cogn

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“…Previous studies have used subjective ratings as measurements for familiarity of characters (Balota, Pilotti, & Cortese, 2001;Liu et al, 2007), and this method was adopted here. A total of 5,640 characters from the ASBC were randomly separated into four subsets, and each subset included 1,410 characters.…”

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A psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming

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In this study, we aimed to provide a large-scale set of psycholinguistic norms for 3,314 traditional Chinese characters, along with their naming reaction times (RTs), collected from 140 Chinese speakers. The lexical and semantic variables in the database include frequency, regularity, familiarity, consistency, number of strokes, homophone density, semantic ambiguity rating, phonetic combinability, semantic combinability, and the number of disyllabic compound words formed by a character. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the predictive powers of these variables for the naming RTs. The results demonstrated that these variables could account for a significant portion of variance (55.8 %) in the naming RTs. An additional multiple regression analysis was conducted to demonstrate the effects of consistency and character frequency. Overall, the regression results were consistent with the findings of previous studies on Chinese character naming. This database should be useful for research into Chinese language processing, Chinese education, or crosslinguistic comparisons. The database can be accessed via an online inquiry system (http://ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw/ namingdatabase/index.html).Keywords Naming . Chinese character naming . Psycholinguistic norm . Chinese visual word recognition Understanding how readers process words, which are fundamental units for reading, has been a core issue in psycholinguistic studies. Behavioral studies have utilized tasks such as naming, lexical decision, speech perception, and synonym judgment, with the aim of understanding how orthographic, phonological, and semantic information is processed during visual word recognition. These experiments have typically employed a factorial design by manipulating one or two lexical variables (e.g., word frequency and spelling-to-sound consistency) in a limited set of stimuli, while trying to control for other lexical variables (e.g., orthographic neighborhood size and acoustic properties of onsets) in order to prevent any potential confounds. Although this approach has provided fruitful evidence to advance our understanding of how various lexical properties affect visual word recognition, it has some limitations in terms of how to select a set of items that vary in only one dimension and how to generalize the findings to a larger set of stimuli.To overcome these limitations, a number of large-scale psycholinguistic databases have been made available for languages with alphabetic orthographies, including English (Balota et al

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“…A lexical database is an organised resource capturing the range of inherent (psycho) linguistic properties of words in a certain language. Lexical databases have been established in some languages, most often English, for which databases exist on imageability, frequency, concreteness, familiarity, meaningfulness and age of acquisition (Paivio, Yuille & Madigan, 1968;Coltheart, 1981;Altarriba, Bauer and Benvenuto, 1999;Balota, Pilotti & Cortese 2001;Bird, Franklin & Howard 2001;Cortese & Khanna, 2008;Brysbaert, Warriner & Kuperman, 2014). Similar lexical data are also available for several other languages, such as Swedish (Blomberg & Öberg, 2015), Norwegian , Portuguese (Marques et al, 2007), Italian (Rofes, de Aguiar & Miceli, 2015), Dutch (Ghyselinck, De Moor & Brysbaert, 2000), and French (Flieller & Tournois, 1994).…”

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“…Nevertheless, the objective method has two limitations: (1) in many languages corpora are not available and (2) when they are available, they contain mostly extensive collections of written samples of professional writers, so the objective frequency is based only on written samples and may not reflect the frequency of words spoken by typical speakers. In this way, the subjective frequency rating may more reliably reflect exposure to the word (Balota, Pilotti & Cortese, 2001), even though it also contains judgement error.…”

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“…Subjective word frequency is an estimation of the number of times a word is encountered by an individual, be it in spoken or written form (Balota, Pilotti & Cortese, 2001;Soares et al, 2017). The term frequency effect claims that subjects respond more rapidly and more accurately to higher-frequency words than to lower-frequency words in tasks of lexical decision (Whaley, 1978;Grainger, 1990), and that speed naming by healthy adults and adults with aphasia is higher for higher-frequency words than for lower-frequency words (Forster & Chambers, 1973;Kay & Ellis, 1987;Grainger, 1990;Kittredge et al, 2008).…”

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Imageability and subjective frequency of the 500 rated nouns in the Croatian Lexical Database

Kraljević¹,

Olujić²

2018

suvlin

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Imageability and subjective frequency of the 500 rated nouns in the Croatian Lexical DatabaseProperties such as word class, length, phonological and morphological complexity, concreteness, frequency, age of acquisition, and imageability have to be controlled in research and clinical practice, since they strongly affect the speed and accuracy of language processing by monolinguals and bilinguals as well as by speakers with language disorders. The purpose of this paper is to present the online Croatian Lexical Database (Cro. Hrvatska leksi~ka baza [HLB], http://polin-hlb.erf.hr/) that contains different (psycho)linguistic word properties, and to use the HLB to provide the first analyses about (1) the relationship between frequency and imageability for the rated 500 nouns, and (2) the influence of raters' age, gender and education on their judgement. The results indicate a significant positive correlation between noun frequency and imageability, but no significant influence of the three non-linguistic rater factors on judgements about (psycho)linguistic property.

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Subjective frequency estimates for 2,938 monosyllabic words

Cited by 237 publications

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Age of acquisition and word frequency: Determinants of object-naming speed and accuracy

Age of acquisition and word frequency: Determinants of object-naming speed and accuracy

A psycholinguistic database for traditional Chinese character naming

Imageability and subjective frequency of the 500 rated nouns in the Croatian Lexical Database

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