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Published on: June 25, 2019
The French Lexicon Project: lexical decision data for 38,840 French words and 38,840 pseudowords
Ludovic Ferrand1, Boris New, Marc Brysbaert
1CNRS and University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. ludovic.ferrand@univ-bpclermont.fr
Abstract:
The French Lexicon Project involved the collection of lexical decision data for 38,840 French words and the same number of nonwords. It was directly inspired by the English Lexicon Project (Balota et al., 2007) and produced very comparable frequency and word length effects. The present article describes the methods used to collect the data, reports analyses on the word frequency and the word length effects, and describes the Excel files that make the data freely available for research purposes. The word and pseudoword data from this article may be downloaded from http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.
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