Subjective frequency norms for 330 Spanish simple and compound words

Desrochers, Alain; Liceras, Juana M.; Fuertes, Raquel Fernández; Thompson, Glenn

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“…For example, Weekes et al's normative database for Chinese has an H mean of 0.97 and an Manoiloff et al, 2010) and French (from Alario & Ferrand, 1999) norms are for 348 pictures, and those between TA and English norms are for the 239 pictures in common with Snodgrass and Vanderwart's (1980) set. For IMA and FREQ, comparisons were carried out on 320 words for French (Desrochers & Thompson, 2009), 189 (Izura, Hernández-Muñoz, & Ellis, 2005) and 193 words (Desrochers et al, 2010) Furthermore, we believe that it is useful to count on the entire database, rather than restricting it to high-NA items only (which would mean that we would only keep items that had 75 % NA and higher). Similar databases in other languages have not eliminated items with very low NA.…”

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“…Objective word frequency refers to the sum of occurrences of a word in textual corpora, whereas the subjective frequency of a given word is estimated by the speakers of the language on a Likert scale, usually ranging from 1 to 7 (Desrochers & Thompson, 2009). Objective and subjective frequency measures have been shown to be strongly associated and to be robust predictors of the ease and speed of response in different types of tasks (Balota, Pilotti, & Cortese, 2001;Desrochers, Liceras, Fernández-Fuertes, & Thompson, 2010). In some studies, subjective frequency estimates were found to be a better predictor of visual and auditory word processing than objective frequency counts (Balota et al, 2001;Connine, Mullennix, Shernoff, & Yelen, 1990).…”

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Norms for name agreement, familiarity, subjective frequency, and imageability for 348 object names in Tunisian Arabic

Boukadi

Zouaidi²,

Wilson

2015

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Normative databases for pictorial stimuli are widely used in research on language processing in order to control for a number of psycholinguistic variables in the selected stimuli. Such resources are lacking for Arabic and its dialectal varieties. In the present study, we aimed to provide Tunisian Arabic (TA) normative data for 348 line drawings taken from Cycowicz, Friedman, Rothstein, and Snodgrass (1997), which include Snodgrass and Vanderwart's (1980) 260 pictures. Norms were collected for the following psycholinguistic variables: name agreement, familiarity, subjective frequency, and imageability. Word length data (in numbers of phonemes and syllables) are also listed in the database. We investigated the effects of these variables on word reading in TA. We found that word length and frequency were the best predictors of wordreading latencies in TA. Name agreement was also a significant predictor of word-reading latencies. A particularly interesting finding was that the semantic variables, imageability and familiarity, affected word-reading latencies in TA. Thus, it would seem that TA readers rely on semantics even when reading individual Arabic words that are transparent in terms of orthography-to-phonology mappings. This database represents a precious and much-needed psycholinguistic resource for researchers investigating language processing in Arabicspeaking populations.Keywords Normative database . Psycholinguistic variables . Arabic . Picture naming . Word reading . Visual word recognition It has long been established that standardized pictorial stimuli allow for more reliable comparisons between the results of different studies and for better control of psycholinguistic variables. As a result, their use has become common practice in experimental as well as clinical research on language. Indeed, the effects of several psycholinguistic variables on spoken and written word processing have been extensively documented among both healthy and language-impaired populations and in several languages, including English, French, Spanish,

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Norms for name agreement, familiarity, subjective frequency, and imageability for 348 object names in Tunisian Arabic

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Zouaidi²,

Wilson

2015

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“…Intrastudy reliability To assess the reliability of the ratings in the study, we performed two main analyses consistent with the previous published norm studies by Bonin and by Desrochers and colleagues (Bonin et al, 2003;Desrochers et al, 2010). First, for within-words stimulus reliability, we computed splithalf correlations of the mean rating values for all the words across the 24 sessions.…”

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“…Word imageability refers to how easily a word can elicit a mental representation of the word's referent (Toglia & Battig, 1978). Subjective frequency refers to the subjective assessment of how often a word is encountered in everyday life (Desrochers, Liceras, Fernandez-Fuertes, & Thompson, 2010;Ferrand et al, 2008;Soares, Costa, Machado, Comesaña, & Oliveira, 2017). French Canadian norms for these two variables have been assessed by means of a 7-point Likert scale in which the closer the values are to 7 means higher imageability or subjective frequency and vice versa (Desrochers & Thompson, 2009).…”

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Norms of conceptual familiarity for 3,596 French nouns and their contribution in lexical decision

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In the last decade, research has shown that word processing is influenced by the lexical and semantic features of words. However, norms for a crucial semantic variable-that is, conceptual familiarity-have not been available for a sizeable French database. We thus developed French Canadian conceptual familiarity norms for 3,596 nouns. This enriches Desrochers and Thompson's (2009) database, in which subjective frequency and imageability values are already available for the same words. We collected online data from 313 Canadian French speakers. The full database of conceptual familiarity ratings is freely available at http://lingualab.ca/fr/projets/normes-de-familiarite-conceptuelle . We then demonstrated the utility of these new conceptual familiarity norms by assessing their contribution to lexical decision times. We conducted a stepwise regression model with conceptual familiarity in the last step. This allowed us to assess the independent contribution of conceptual familiarity beyond the contributions of other well-known psycholinguistic variables, such as frequency, imageability, and age of acquisition. The results showed that conceptual familiarity facilitated lexical decision latencies. In sum, these ratings will help researchers select French stimuli for experiments in which conceptual familiarity must be taken into account.

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“…To accomplish this analysis, we computed the Pearson correlation coefficient between our oral frequency values and three different estimates of frequency available in Spanish: subjective frequency (Desrochers, Liceras, Fernández-Fuertes, & Thomson, 2010), written frequency (Sebastián et al, 2000), and subtitle-based frequency (Cuetos et al, in press). Table 1 displays the results of this analysis, showing, as expected, that the oral frequency estimates were positively correlated with the three other estimates.…”

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Oral frequency norms for 67,979 Spanish words

2011

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Frequency of occurrence is an important attribute of lexical units, and one that is widely used in psychological research and theorization. Although printed frequency norms have long been available for Spanish, and subtitlebased norms have more recently been published, oral frequency norms have not been systematically compiled for a representative set of words. In this study, a corpus of over three million units, representing present-day use of the language in Spain, was used to derive a frequency count of spoken words. The corpus consisted of 913 separate documents that contained transcriptions of oral recordings obtained in a wide variety of situations, mostly radio and television programs. The resulting database, containing absolute and relative frequency values for 67,979 orally produced words, is presented. Validity analyses showed significant correlations of oral frequency with other frequency measures and suggest that oral frequency can predict some types of lexical processing with the same or higher levels of precision, when contrasted with text-or subtitle-based frequencies. In conclusion, we discuss ways in which these oral frequency norms can be put to use. The norms can be downloaded from www.springerlink.com.Keywords Word frequency . Spoken word frequency . Frequency estimates . Spanish norms Lexical frequency is a descriptive attribute that makes reference to the extent to which a particular word is used by the speakers of a given language. The findings of many diachronic linguistic studies have suggested that the frequency with which linguistic units are produced and encountered in the course of verbal interactions modulates the way in which languages change over time, affecting variations in phonology, morphology, and grammar (Bybee, 2007). For example, quantitative analyses of word usage throughout extended periods of time have revealed that, at least in Indo-European languages, terms that occur very frequently in discourse are more resistant to change than are those in lesser use (Pagel, Atkinson, & Meade, 2007). Additionally, and more relevant to the purpose of this study, the results of many psychological experiments entailing the control and manipulation of verbal materials indicate that lexical frequency is involved in important aspects of human cognition related to language and memory.Psycholinguistic studies have consistently found that, when other variables are held constant, higher frequency words are more readily processed than lower frequency words in tasks such as word recognition, lexical decision, and naming (e.g.,

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Subjective frequency norms for 330 Spanish simple and compound words

Cited by 14 publications

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Norms for name agreement, familiarity, subjective frequency, and imageability for 348 object names in Tunisian Arabic

Norms for name agreement, familiarity, subjective frequency, and imageability for 348 object names in Tunisian Arabic

Norms of conceptual familiarity for 3,596 French nouns and their contribution in lexical decision

Oral frequency norms for 67,979 Spanish words

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