Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns

被引:266
作者
Barca, L
Burani, C
Arduino, LS
机构
[1] CNR, Ist Sci & Tecnol Cogniz, I-00137 Rome, Italy
[2] Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00137 Rome, Italy
来源
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS INSTRUMENTS & COMPUTERS | 2002年 / 34卷 / 03期
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10.3758/BF03195471
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B841 [心理学研究方法];
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040201 ;
摘要
The present study describes normative measures for 626 Italian simple nouns. The database (LEXVAR. XLS) is freely available for down-loading on the Web site http://wwwistc.ip.rm.cnr.it/material/ database/. For each of the 626 nouns, values for the following variables are reported: age of acquisition, familiarity, imageability, concreteness, adult written frequency, child written frequency, adult spoken frequency, number of orthographic neighbors, mean bigram frequency, length in syllables, and length in letters. A classification of lexical stress and of the type of word-initial phoneme is also provided. The intercorrelations among the variables, a factor analysis, and the effects of variables and of the extracted factors on word naming are reported. Naming latencies were affected primarily by a factor including word length and neighborhood size and by a word frequency factor. Neither a semantic factor including imageability, concreteness, and age of acquisition nor a factor defined by mean bigram frequency had significant effects on pronunciation times. These results hold for a language with shallow orthography, like Italian, for which lexical nonsemantic properties have been shown to affect reading aloud. These norms are useful in a variety of research areas involving the manipulation and control of stimulus attributes.
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