English Concreteness Ratings
Authors: | Marc Brysbaert, Victor Kuperman, and Amy Beth Warriner |
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Updated: | Sun 15 September 2013 |
Source: | http://crr.ugent.be/archives/1330 |
Type: | database |
Languages: | English |
Keywords: | word-recognition, linguistics, concreteness, psycholinguistics |
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. |