Journal
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
Volume 51, Issue 3, Pages 1258-1270Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-018-1099-3
Keywords
Psycholinguistic norms; Arousal; Valence; Dominance; Concreteness; Imageability; Familiarity; Age of acquisition; Semantic size; Gender association
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- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [RES-062-23-1900]
- Carnegie Collaborative Research Grant from the Carnegie Trust [50084]
- ESRC [ES/G035571/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The Glasgow Norms are a set of normative ratings for 5,553 English words on nine psycholinguistic dimensions: arousal, valence, dominance, concreteness, imageability, familiarity, age of acquisition, semantic size, and gender association. The Glasgow Norms are unique in several respects. First, the corpus itself is relatively large, while simultaneously providing norms across a substantial number of lexical dimensions. Second, for any given subset of words, the same participants provided ratings across all nine dimensions (33 participants/word, on average). Third, two novel dimensionssemantic size and gender associationare included. Finally, the corpus contains a set of 379 ambiguous words that are presented either alone (e.g., toast) or with information that selects an alternative sense (e.g., toast (bread), toast (speech)). The relationships between the dimensions of the Glasgow Norms were initially investigated by assessing their correlations. In addition, a principal component analysis revealed four main factors, accounting for 82% of the variance (Visualization, Emotion, Salience, and Exposure). The validity of the Glasgow Norms was established via comparisons of our ratings to 18 different sets of current psycholinguistic norms. The dimension of size was tested with megastudy data, confirming findings from past studies that have explicitly examined this variable. Alternative senses of ambiguous words (i.e., disambiguated forms), when discordant on a given dimension, seemingly led to appropriately distinct ratings. Informal comparisons between the ratings of ambiguous words and of their alternative senses showed different patterns that likely depended on several factors (the number of senses, their relative strengths, and the rating scales themselves). Overall, the Glasgow Norms provide a valuable resourcein particular, for researchers investigating the role of word recognition in language comprehension.
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