Rated age-of-acquisition norms for over 3,200 German words

Birchenough, Julia; Davies, Robert; Connelly, Vincent

doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0718-0

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“…To make sure that the items used were appropriate for the cultural context and children's age, they were replaced in accordance with a short survey administered in a pre‐study before this study. In this survey, we listed all items of Botting et al's () gesture comprehension and gesture production task that were within children's passive vocabulary (according to the age of acquisition as listed in Birchenough, Davies, & Connelly, ). We then asked N = 25 parents of 3‐ to 4‐year‐olds to indicate for which of these items their children were able to produce a gesture, understand a gesture or both.…”

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Do you understand what I want to tell you? Early sensitivity in bilinguals' iconic gesture perception and production

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Gampe

Helbling

et al. 2020

Developmental Science

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Previous research has shown differences in monolingual and bilingual communication. We explored whether monolingual and bilingual pre-schoolers (N = 80) differ in their ability to understand others' iconic gestures (gesture perception) and produce intelligible iconic gestures themselves (gesture production) and how these two abilities are related to differences in parental iconic gesture frequency. In a gesture perception task, the experimenter replaced the last word of every sentence with an iconic gesture. The child was then asked to choose one of four pictures that matched the gesture as well as the sentence. In a gesture production task, children were asked to indicate 'with their hands' to a deaf puppet which objects to select. Finally, parental gesture frequency was measured while parents answered three different questions. In the iconic gesture perception task, monolingual and bilingual children did not differ. In contrast, bilinguals produced more intelligible gestures than their monolingual peers. Finally, bilingual children's parents gestured more while they spoke than monolingual children's parents. We suggest that bilinguals' heightened sensitivity to their interaction partner supports their ability to produce intelligible gestures and results in a bilingual advantage in iconic gesture production.

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Do you understand what I want to tell you? Early sensitivity in bilinguals' iconic gesture perception and production

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Gampe

Helbling

et al. 2020

Developmental Science

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“…A second check that we conducted was to examine the age of acquisition of each of the words using an existing database of German words (Birchenough, Davies, & Connelly, 2016). Birchenough et al (2016) asked adults to retrospectively rate the age at which they believed they acquired and could understand the given word.…”

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Fine Motor Skills Enhance Lexical Processing of Embodied Vocabulary: A Test of the Nimble-Hands, Nimble-Minds Hypothesis

Suggate

Stoeger

2017

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Research suggests that fine motor skills (FMS) are linked to aspects of cognitive development in children. Additionally, lexical processing advantages exist for words implying a high body-object interaction (BOI), with initial findings indicating that such words in turn link to children's FMS-for which we propose and evaluate four competing hypotheses. First, a maturational account argues that any links between FMS and lexical processing should not exist once developmental variables are controlled for. Second, functionalism posits that any link between FMS and lexical processing arises due to environmental interactions. Third, the semantic richness hypothesis argues that sensorimotor input improves lexical processing, but predicts no links between FMS and lexical processing. A fourth account, the nimble-hands, nimble minds (NHNM) hypothesis, proposes that having greater FMS improves lexical processing for high-BOI words. In two experiments, the response latencies of preschool children (n = 90, n = 76, ages = 5;1) to 45 lexical items encompassing high-BOI, low-BOI, and less imageable words were measured, alongside measures of FMS, reasoning, and general receptive/expressive vocabulary. High-BOI words appeared to show unique links to FMS, which remained after accounting for low-BOI and less imageable words, general vocabulary, reasoning, and chronological age. Although further work is needed, the findings provide initial support for the NHNM hypothesis.

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“…Alonso, Fernandez, & Dıéz, 2015; M. Á. Alonso, Dıéz, & Fernandez, 2016;Birchenough, Davies, & Connelly, 2017;Hinojosa, Rincón-Pérez, et al, 2016;Kuperman, Stadthagen-Gonzalez, & Brysbaert, 2012;Montefinese, Vinson, Vigliocco, & Ambrosini, 2019). Pain semantic norms were gathered by Borelli, Crepaldi, Porro, and Cacciari (2018), and Binder et al (2016).…”

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Semantic Norm Extrapolation is a Missing Data Problem

Snefjella¹,

Blank²

2020

Preprint

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For close to 70 years psychologists have studied word meaning using a simple method: participants rate words on some theoretically motivated property (e.g. pleasantness, familiarity) using a Likert scale as the measurement instrument. Such semantic judgments serve as a means of interrogating the underlying structure of lexical semantic constructs, to select stimuli for experiments, or as covariates in models predicting brain or behaviour. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in using computational distributional semantic word representations and supervised learning to predict semantic judgments on Likert scales for words lacking empirical measurements. We call this task semantic norm extrapolation. A significant body of work has developed showing methods for semantic norm extrapolation are often highly accurate. The impressive performance of models for this task may give the appearance that non-empirical, machine learning derived estimates of semantic norms are interchangeable with empirical measurements of semantic norms. Herein, we argue that this is not the case, and that all extant methods for semantic norm extrapolation are more problematic than the literature suggests. Naive use of extrapolated semantic norms should be expected to yield biased and anti-conservative analyses. We make this argument using a mixture of 1) the principles of analysis of partially observed data, 2) simulations, and 3) a real-data example. Achieving sound inference when using semantic norm extrapolation requires a conceptual and methodological shift from treating semantic norm extrapolation as a prediction problem to treating it as a missing data problem. This shift in perspective also lays bare problems in default analytical procedures of semantic norms and megastudy data, and surprisingly suggests that semantic norm extrapolation --- when done using recommended procedures for analysis of partially observed data --- should be default methodological practice.

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Rated age-of-acquisition norms for over 3,200 German words

Cited by 22 publications

References 78 publications

Do you understand what I want to tell you? Early sensitivity in bilinguals' iconic gesture perception and production

Do you understand what I want to tell you? Early sensitivity in bilinguals' iconic gesture perception and production

Fine Motor Skills Enhance Lexical Processing of Embodied Vocabulary: A Test of the Nimble-Hands, Nimble-Minds Hypothesis

Semantic Norm Extrapolation is a Missing Data Problem

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