Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas

Simulating Human Ratings on Word Concreteness

Psychological measures of concreteness of words are generally estimated by having humans provide ratings of words on a concreteness scale. Due to the limits of this technique, concreteness ratings in current word databases (e.g., MRC) are incomplete due to the limited size of the word samples. In this study, we use available linguistic databases to formulate a computational model to simulate hu...

Age - of - acquisition ratings for 30 thousand English words

Concreteness and word production.

Two experiments are reported that investigated the effect of concreteness on the ability to generate words to fit sentence contexts. When participants attempted to retrieve words from dictionary definitions in experiment 1, abstract words were associated with more omissions and more alternates than were concrete words. These findings are consistent with the view that the semantic-lexical weight...

Norms of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch words.

Word processing studies increasingly make use of regression analyses based on large numbers of stimuli (the so-called megastudy approach) rather than experimental designs based on small factorial designs. This requires the availability of word features for many words. Following similar studies in English, we present and validate ratings of age of acquisition and concreteness for 30,000 Dutch wo...

Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas.

Information about the affective meanings of words is used by researchers working on emotions and moods, word recognition and memory, and text-based sentiment analysis. Three components of emotions are traditionally distinguished: valence (the pleasantness of a stimulus), arousal (the intensity of emotion provoked by a stimulus), and dominance (the degree of control exerted by a stimulus). Thus ...