English Concreteness Ratings

Authors: Marc BrysbaertVictor Kupermanand Amy Beth Warriner
Updated: Sun 15 September 2013
Source: http://crr.ugent.be/archives/1330
Type: database
Languages: English
Keywords: word-recognitionlinguisticsconcretenesspsycholinguistics
Open Access: yes
License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Publications: Brysbaert, M., Warriner, A.B., & Kuperman, V. (2014).
Citation: Brysbaert, M., Warriner, A.B., & Kuperman, V. (2014). Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 46, 904-911.
Summary:

Concreteness ratings are presented for 37,058 English words and 2,896 two-word expressions (such as “zebra crossing” and “zoom in”), obtained from over four thousand participants by means of a norming study using internet crowdsourcing for data collection. Although the instructions stressed that the assessment of word concreteness would be based on experiences involving all senses and motor responses, a comparison with the existing concreteness norms indicates that participants, as before, largely focused on visual and haptic experiences. The reported dataset is a subset of a comprehensive list of English lemmas and contains all lemmas known by at least 85% of the raters. It can be used in future research as a reference list of generally known English lemmas.