Author, as appears in the article.: Rodriguez-Cuadrado S; Hinojosa JA; Guasch M; Romero-Rivas C; Sabater L; Suárez-Coalla P; Ferré P
Department: Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc
Keywords: Sensory experience ratings Second language speakers Boosted regression trees Age of acquisition set second language speakers psycholinguistic norms of-acquisition object names neighborhood density naming times lexical-decision frequency emotion boosted regression trees
Abstract: Psycholinguistic studies have shown that there are many variables implicated in language comprehension and production. At the lexical level, subjective age of acquisition (AoA), the estimate of the age at which a word is acquired, is key for stimuli selection in psycholinguistic studies. AoA databases in English are often used when testing a variety of phenomena in second language (L2) speakers of English. However, these have limitations, as the norms are not provided by the target population (L2 speakers of English) but by native English speakers. In this study, we asked native Spanish L2 speakers of English to provide subjective AoA ratings for 1604 English words, and investigated whether factors related to 14 lexico-semantic and affective variables, both in Spanish and English, and to the speakers' profile (i.e., sociolinguistic variables and L2 proficiency), were related to the L2 AoA ratings. We used boosted regression trees, an advanced form of regression analysis based on machine learning and boosting algorithms, to analyse the data. Our results showed that the model accounted for a relevant proportion of deviance (58.56%), with the English AoA provided by native English speakers being the strongest predictor for L2 AoA. Additionally, L2 AoA correlated with L2 reaction times. Our database is a useful tool for the research community running psycholinguistic studies in L2 speakers of English. It adds knowledge about which factors-linked to the characteristics of both the linguistic stimuli and the speakers-affect L2 subjective AoA. The database and the data can be downloaded from: https://osf.io/gr8xd/?view_only=73b01dccbedb4d7897c8d104d3d68c46 .© 2022. The Author(s).
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: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat marc.guasch@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0002-6898-120X
Record's date: 2024-07-27
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-022-02026-9
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Behavior Research Methods.
APA: Rodriguez-Cuadrado S; Hinojosa JA; Guasch M; Romero-Rivas C; Sabater L; Suárez-Coalla P; Ferré P (2022). Subjective age of acquisition norms for 1604 English words by Spanish L2 speakers of English and their relationship with lexico-semantic, affective, sociolinguistic and proficiency variables. Behavior Research Methods, (), -. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-02026-9
Article's DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-02026-9
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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