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Published on: July 13, 2019
Psycholinguistic norms for a set of 506 French compound words
Patrick Bonin1, Betty Laroche2, Alain Méot3
1LEAD-CNRS (UMR5022), Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Pôle AAFE - Esplanade Erasme, BP 26513, 21065, Dijon Cedex, France. Patrick.Bonin@u-bourgogne.fr.
Abstract:
Compounds are morphologically complex words made of different linguistic parts. They are very prevalent in a number of languages such as French. Different psycholinguistic characteristics of compounds have been used in certain studies to investigate the mechanisms involved in compound processing (see Table 7). We provide psycholinguistic norms for a set of 506 French compound words. The words were normed on seven characteristics: lexeme meaning dominance, semantic transparency, sensory experience, conceptual familiarity, imageability, age of acquisition (AoA) and subjective frequency. Reliability measures were computed for the collected norms. Descriptive statistical analyses, and correlational and multiple regression analyses were performed. We also report some comparisons made between our normative data and certain norms obtained in other similar studies. The entire set of norms, which will be very useful to researchers investigating the processing of compounds, is available as Supplemental Material.
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