Prevalence norms for 40,777 Catalan words: An online megastudy of vocabulary size.
Catalan norms
Crowdsourcing megastudy
Vocabulary knowledge
Word prevalence
Journal
Behavior research methods
ISSN: 1554-3528
Titre abrégé: Behav Res Methods
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101244316
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2023
09 2023
Historique:
accepted:
15
08
2022
medline:
9
10
2023
pubmed:
11
9
2022
entrez:
10
9
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In this study, we present word prevalence data (i.e., the number of people who know a given word) for 40,777 Catalan words. An online massive visual lexical decision task involving more than 200,000 native speakers of this language was carried out. The characteristics of the participants as well as those of the words which mostly influence word knowledge were examined. Regarding the participants, the analysis of the data revealed that their age was the main factor influencing vocabulary size, followed by their educational level and other variables such as the number of languages spoken and their level of proficiency in Catalan. Concerning the words, by far the most determining factor was lexical frequency, with a minor influence of both length and the size of the orthographic neighborhood. These data mainly agree with those reported in other languages in which the same variables have been analyzed (Dutch, English, and Spanish, thus far). Therefore, the list is increased with Catalan, a language which, due to its use in an essentially bilingual context, is of special interest to researchers interested in the field of bilingualism and second language acquisition.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36085541
doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-01959-5
pii: 10.3758/s13428-022-01959-5
pmc: PMC10556174
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3198-3217Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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