Summary information
Study title
Age of Acquisition, Frequency, Concreteness and Imageability Ratings for Welsh Words and Their English Equivalents, 1995-1996
Creator
Fear, W. James, University of Wales College of Cardiff, School of Psychology
Study number / PID
3556 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-3556-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The purpose of this study was to develop a database of Welsh words and their English equivalents giving subjectively rated measures for four variables (age of aquisition; frequency; imagery; concreteness) which are commonly used in research into the process of reading, word recognition and production.
Main Topics:
Welsh words and English equivalents rated for four variables: age of acquisition; subjective frequency or familiarity; concreteness; imagery.
Welsh words were rated by bilinguals (in Welsh and English). English words were rated in some cases by bilinguals (Welsh and English), and in some cases by monolinguals (English).
Standard Measures
For all variables a seven point rating scale was used. Age of acquisition and frequency used unique instructions (provided with database).
For imagery ratings the instructions from Paivio, Yuille and Maidgan (1968) were used and for concreteness the instructions from Spreen and Schulz (1966) were used.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1995 - 01/01/1996
Country
Wales
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Text units (documents/chapters/words)
Subnational
Linguistic data
Universe
Word characteristics as determined by subjective ratings. Words are Welsh words with their English equivalents.
Sampling procedure
Volunteer sample
Kind of data
Text
Numeric
Data collection mode
Self-completion
Funding information
Grant number
K00429413158
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1997
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
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