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The adaptation of the Object and Action Naming Battery into Moroccan Arabic: Norms for name agreement, frequency,
Youssef Rami1, Samir Diouny2, Mohamed Yeou1
1Applied Language and Culture Studies, Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco.
Introduction:
The ability to name pictures has been investigated widely in healthy people and clinical populations. The Object and Action Naming Battery (OANB) is widely used for psycholinguistic research, aphasia research, and clinical practice. Normative databases for pictorial stimuli have been conducted in language processing studies to control for various psycholinguistic variables known to affect the availability of picture names. The present study provides Moroccan Arabic norms for name agreement, familiarity, imageability, visual complexity, and age of acquisition for 100 line drawings of actions and 162 line drawings of objects taken from Druks and Masterson.
Methods And Procedures:
160 healthy Moroccan Arabic-speaking individuals participated in this study. Name agreement values for the OANB items were collected from forty subjects, followed by collecting data for the psycholinguistic variables: spoken-word frequency, imageability, visual complexity, and age of acquisition from 120 participants.
Results:
The Moroccan Arabic OANB (MA-OANB) comprises 70 objects and 60 action pictures. 77% of the nouns and 68% of the verbs obtained 100% target responses. A minimum of 93 percent name agreement was reached for the remaining items. Norms were also collected for the following psycholinguistic variables: spoken-word frequency, imageability, age of acquisition, and visual complexity.
Conclusion:
The stimuli can be used for various psycholinguistic investigations and also for assessment and therapeutic purposes in Morocco.
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