Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas

TY - JOUR

T1 - Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas

AU - Marc, Brysbaert

AU - Mandera, Paweł

AU - McCormick, Samantha

AU - Keuleers, Emmanuel

PY - 2018/7/2

Y1 - 2018/7/2

N2 - We present word prevalence data for 61,858 English words. Word prevalence refers to the number of people who know the word. The measure was obtained on the basis of an online crowdsourcing study involving over 220,000 people. Word prevalence data are useful to gauge the difficulty of words and, as such, are interesting to match stimulus materials in experimental conditions or to select stimulus materials for vocabulary tests. Word prevalence also predicts word processing times, over and above the effects of word frequency, word length, similarity to other words, and age ofacquisition, in line with previous findings in the Dutch language.

AB - We present word prevalence data for 61,858 English words. Word prevalence refers to the number of people who know the word. The measure was obtained on the basis of an online crowdsourcing study involving over 220,000 people. Word prevalence data are useful to gauge the difficulty of words and, as such, are interesting to match stimulus materials in experimental conditions or to select stimulus materials for vocabulary tests. Word prevalence also predicts word processing times, over and above the effects of word frequency, word length, similarity to other words, and age ofacquisition, in line with previous findings in the Dutch language.

UR - https://rdcu.be/bCUIz

U2 - 10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9

DO - 10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9

M3 - Article

SN - 1554-351X

VL - 51

SP - 467

EP - 479

JO - BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS

JF - BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS

IS - 2

ER -