Age-of-Acquisition Ratings for 2816 Dutch Four- and Five-Letter
                        Nouns

Ghyselinck, Mandy; Moor, Wendy De; Brysbaert, Marc

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“…To make the database more valuable for research on morphology, we also included mono- and disyllabic word forms with a frequency of less than 1 per million that were inflectionally related to nominal or verbal word forms already in the database. In addition, mono- and disyllabic words with a frequency below 1 in CELEX were included in our study if they appeared in the age-of-acquisition (AoA) norming studies of De Moor et al ( 2000 ) and Ghyselinck et al ( 2000 ), the word association study of De Deyne and Storms ( 2008 ) or a list of Dutch–English cognates kindly supplied by Ton Dijkstra.…”

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Practice Effects in Large-Scale Visual Word Recognition Studies: A Lexical Decision Study on 14,000 Dutch Mono- and Disyllabic Words and Nonwords

Keuleers¹,

Diependaele²,

Brysbaert³

2010

Front. Psychology

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In recent years, psycholinguistics has seen a remarkable growth of research based on the analysis of data from large-scale studies of word recognition, in particular lexical decision and word naming. We present the data of the Dutch Lexicon Project (DLP) in which a group of 39 participants made lexical decisions to 14,000 words and the same number of nonwords. To examine whether the extensive practice precludes comparison with the traditional short experiments, we look at the differences between the first and the last session, compare the results with the English Lexicon Project (ELP) and the French Lexicon Project (FLP), and examine to what extent established findings in Dutch psycholinguistics can be replicated in virtual experiments. Our results show that when good nonwords are used, practice effects are minimal in lexical decision experiments and do not invalidate the behavioral data. For instance, the word frequency curve is the same in DLP as in ELP and FLP. Also, the Dutch–English cognate effect is the same in DLP as in a previously published factorial experiment. This means that large-scale word recognition studies can make use of psychophysical and psychometrical approaches. In addition, our data represent an important collection of very long series of individual reaction times that may be of interest to researchers in other areas.

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Practice Effects in Large-Scale Visual Word Recognition Studies: A Lexical Decision Study on 14,000 Dutch Mono- and Disyllabic Words and Nonwords

Keuleers¹,

Diependaele²,

Brysbaert³

2010

Front. Psychology

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“…Our AOA criterion was 6 years or earlier. Estimates of AOA were based on two published ratings (1) vocabulary estimates of 6-year-olds ( Schaerlakens et al, 1999 ), (2) AOA of Dutch words ( Ghyselinck et al, 2000 ), and a subsequent student/parent familiarity rating of the selected words. The current selection criterion was motivated by a study indicating that AOA is a more sensitive index of lexical familiarity than either word frequency or neighborhood density when examining developmental change in visual word recognition ( Garlock et al, 2001 ).…”

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Brain-potential analysis of visual word recognition in dyslexics and typically reading children

González

Tijms

Bonte

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The specialization of visual brain areas for fast processing of printed words plays an important role in the acquisition of reading skills. Dysregulation of these areas may be among the deficits underlying developmental dyslexia. The present study examines the specificity of word activation in dyslexic children in 3rd grade by comparing early components of brain potentials elicited by visually presented words vs. strings of meaningless letter-like symbols. Results showed a more pronounced N1 component for words compared to symbols for both groups. The dyslexic group revealed larger left-lateralized, word-specific N1 responses than the typically reading group. Furthermore, positive correlations between N1 amplitudes and reading fluency were found in the dyslexic group. Our results support the notion of N1 as a sensitive index of visual word processing involved in reading fluency.

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“…A total of 134 words (67 living, 67 nonliving) were selected from four databases. These were CELEX (Baayen, Piepenbrock, & van Rijn, 1993), the AoA-ratings collected by Ghyselinck, de Moor, and Brysbaert (2000) and Ghyselinck, Custers, and Brysbaert (2003), and the imageability ratings collected by van Loon-Vervoorn (1985). Frequency was expressed as word count in a corpus of 1 million occurrences, AoA was expressed in years, and imageability was expressed on a 7point scale.…”

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What causes the effect of age of acquisition in lexical processing?

Menenti

Burani

2007

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Three hypotheses for effects of age of acquisition (AoA) in lexical processing are compared: the cumulative frequency hypothesis (frequency and AoA both influence the number of encounters with a word, which influences processing speed), the semantic hypothesis (early-acquired words are processed faster because they are more central in the semantic network), and the neural network model (early-acquired words are faster because they are acquired when a network has maximum plasticity). In a regression study of lexical decision (LD) and semantic categorization (SC) in Italian and Dutch, contrary to the cumulative frequency hypothesis, AoA coefficients were larger than frequency coefficients, and, contrary to the semantic hypothesis, the effect of AoA was not larger in SC than in LD. The neural network model was supported

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Age-of-Acquisition Ratings for 2816 Dutch Four- and Five-Letter Nouns

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Practice Effects in Large-Scale Visual Word Recognition Studies: A Lexical Decision Study on 14,000 Dutch Mono- and Disyllabic Words and Nonwords

Practice Effects in Large-Scale Visual Word Recognition Studies: A Lexical Decision Study on 14,000 Dutch Mono- and Disyllabic Words and Nonwords

Brain-potential analysis of visual word recognition in dyslexics and typically reading children

What causes the effect of age of acquisition in lexical processing?

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