Author, as appears in the article.: Guasch, Marc; Boada, Roger; Andoni Dunabeitia, Jon; Ferre, Pilar;
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Boada Navarro, Roger / Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc
Keywords: Word prevalence Vocabulary knowledge Frequencies Crowdsourcing megastudy Catalan norms
Abstract: In this study, we present word prevalence data (i.e., the number of people who know a given word) for 40,777 Catalan words. An online massive visual lexical decision task involving more than 200,000 native speakers of this language was carried out. The characteristics of the participants as well as those of the words which mostly influence word knowledge were examined. Regarding the participants, the analysis of the data revealed that their age was the main factor influencing vocabulary size, followed by their educational level and other variables such as the number of languages spoken and their level of proficiency in Catalan. Concerning the words, by far the most determining factor was lexical frequency, with a minor influence of both length and the size of the orthographic neighborhood. These data mainly agree with those reported in other languages in which the same variables have been analyzed (Dutch, English, and Spanish, thus far). Therefore, the list is increased with Catalan, a language which, due to its use in an essentially bilingual context, is of special interest to researchers interested in the field of bilingualism and second language acquisition.
Thematic Areas: Psychology, mathematical Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Medicina ii General psychology Experimental and cognitive psychology Enfermagem Educação física Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas ii Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: marc.guasch@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat roger.boada@estudiants.urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-6898-120X 0000-0002-3192-0040
Record's date: 2023-10-28
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-022-01959-5
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Behavior Research Methods. 55 (6): 3198-3217
APA: Guasch, Marc; Boada, Roger; Andoni Dunabeitia, Jon; Ferre, Pilar; (2023). Prevalence norms for 40,777 Catalan words: An online megastudy of vocabulary size. Behavior Research Methods, 55(6), 3198-3217. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-01959-5
Article's DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-01959-5
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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