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Objective age of acquisition norms for a set of 286 words in Russian: relationships with other psycholinguistic
Andrei Grigoriev1, Ivan Oshhepkov
1Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow City University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, grigoriev.ran@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Normative data on the objective age of acquisition (AoA) for 286 Russian words are presented in this article. In addition, correlations between the objective AoA and subjective ratings, name agreement, picture name agreement, imageability, familiarity, word frequency, and word length are provided, as are correlations between the objective AoA and two measures of exemplar dominance (exemplar generation frequency and the number of times an exemplar was named first). The correlations between the aforementioned variables are generally consistent with the correlations reported in other normative studies. The objective AoA data are highly correlated with the subjective AoA ratings, whereas the correlations between the objective AoA and other psycholinguistic variables are moderate. The correlations between the objective AoA of Russian words and similar data for other languages are moderately high. The complete word norms may be downloaded from supplementary material.
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