Imageability ratings across languages

Rofes, Adrià; Zakariás, Lilla; Ceder, Klaudia; Lind, Marianne; Johansson, Monica; Aguiar, Vânia de; Bjekić, Jovana; Fyndanis, Valantis; Gavarró, Anna; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Sacristán, Carlos Hernández; Kambanaros, Maria; Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač; Martínez-Ferreiro, Silvia; Maviş, İlknur; Orellana, Carolina Méndez; Sör, Ingrid; Lukács, Ágnes; Tunçer, Aylin Müge; Vuksanović, Jasmina; Munarriz-Ibarrola, Amaia; Pourquié, Marie; Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Howard, David

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“…Human ratings of these and other characteristics appear in databases for a number of languages, for instance English (Bird et al, 2001;Brysbaert et al, 2014b;Coltheart, 1981;Paivio et al, 1968), Spanish (Duchon et al, 2013;Guasch et al, 2016), Italian (Della Rosa et al, 2010;Montefinese et al, 2019;Rofes et al, 2018), French (Desrochers & Thompson, 2009), Dutch (Brysbaert et al, 2014a), Portuguese (Soares et al, 2017), Polish (Imbir, 2016) and Chinese (Yee, 2017). Most of them are freely available, but some are only available as lists rather than downloadable datasets.…”

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The Croatian psycholinguistic database: Estimates for 6000 nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

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Psycholinguistic databases containing ratings of concreteness, imageability, age of acquisition, and subjective frequency are used in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies which require words as stimuli. Linguistic characteristics (e.g. word length, corpus frequency) are frequently coded, but word class is seldom systematically treated, although there are indications of its significance for imageability and concreteness. This paper presents the Croatian Psycholinguistic Database (CPD; available at: 10.17234/megahr.2019.hpb), containing 6000 Croatian nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, rated for concreteness, imageability, age of acquisition, and subjective frequency. Moreover, we present computationally obtained extrapolations of concreteness and imageability to the remainder of the Croatian lexicon (available at: https://github.com/megahr/lexicon/blob/master/predictions/hr_c_i.predictions.txt). In the two studies presented here, we explore the significance of word class for concreteness and imageability in human and computationally obtained ratings. The observed correlations in the CPD indicate correspondences between psycholinguistic measures expected from the literature. Word classes exhibit differences in subjective frequency, age of acquisition, concreteness and imageability, with significant differences between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In the computational study which focused on concreteness and imageability, concreteness obtained higher correlations with human ratings than imageability, and the system underpredicted the concreteness of nouns, and overpredicted the concreteness of adjectives and adverbs. Overall, this suggests that word class contains schematic conceptual and distributional information. Schematic conceptual content seems to be more significant in human ratings of concreteness and less significant in computationally obtained ratings, where distributional information seems to play a more significant role. This suggests that word class differences should be theoretically explored.

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The Croatian psycholinguistic database: Estimates for 6000 nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

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“…6 This was done through the use of questionnaires, for which at least 20 participants rated each selected word on a 7-point Likert scale, with one representing 'impossible to create an image' and seven representing 'very imageable'. When selecting items for these subtests, it was of course important to ensure that there was a gap between the high and low imageability items, respectively.…”

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Cross-linguistic adaptations ofThe Comprehensive Aphasia Test: Challenges and solutions

Fyndanis

Lind

Varlokosta

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Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Comparative research on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation is challenged by the lack of comparable assessment tools across different languages. In English, a large array of tools is available, while in most other languages, the selection is more limited. Importantly, assessment tools are often simple translations and do not take into consideration specific linguistic and psycholinguistic parameters of the target languages. As a first step in meeting the needs for comparable assessment tools, the Comprehensive Aphasia Test is currently being adapted into a number of languages spoken in Europe. In this article, some key challenges encountered in the adaptation process and the solutions to ensure that the resulting assessment tools are linguistically and culturally equivalent, are proposed. Specifically, we focus on challenges and solutions related to the use of imageability, frequency, word length, spelling-to-sound regularity and sentence length and complexity as underlying properties in the selection of the testing material.

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“…All imageability ratings were collected on the English tokens of the ‘correct’ translation. There is currently no database measuring imageability for the ASL lexicon, but English imageability ratings have been found to capture an effect that is cross-linguistically consistent (Rofes et al, 2018).…”

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Iconicity in American Sign Language–English translation recognition

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2020

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Reaction times for a translation recognition study are reported where novice to expert English–ASL bilinguals rejected English translation distractors for ASL signs that were related to the correct translations through phonology, semantics, or both form and meaning (diagrammatic iconicity). Imageability ratings of concepts impacted performance in all conditions; when imageability was high, participants showed interference for phonologically related distractors, and when imageability was low participants showed interference for semantically related distractors, regardless of proficiency. For diagrammatically related distractors high imageability caused interference in experts, but low imageability caused interference in novices. These patterns suggest that imageability and diagrammaticity interact with proficiency – experts process diagrammatic related distractors phonologically, but novices process them semantically. This implies that motivated signs are dependent on the entrenchment of language systematicity; rather than decreasing their impact on language processing as proficiency grows, they build on the original benefit conferred by iconic mappings.

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Imageability ratings across languages

Cited by 32 publications

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The Croatian psycholinguistic database: Estimates for 6000 nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

The Croatian psycholinguistic database: Estimates for 6000 nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

Cross-linguistic adaptations ofThe Comprehensive Aphasia Test: Challenges and solutions

Iconicity in American Sign Language–English translation recognition

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