A Normative Database and Determinants of Lexical Retrieval for 186 Arabic Nouns: Effects of Psycholinguistic and Morpho-Syntactic Variables on Naming Latency

Autor/inn/en	Khwaileh, Tariq; Body, Richard; Herbert, Ruth
Titel	A Normative Database and Determinants of Lexical Retrieval for 186 Arabic Nouns: Effects of Psycholinguistic and Morpho-Syntactic Variables on Naming Latency
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43 (2014) 6, S.749-769 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-013-9277-z
Schlagwörter	Semitic Languages; Nouns; Databases; Psycholinguistics; Pictorial Stimuli; Morphology (Languages); Syntax; Morphemes; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Speech Language Pathology; Photography + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Datenbank; Psycholinguistik; Fantasieanregung; Morphology; Morphologie; Morphem; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Neurolinguistisches Programmieren; Fotografie
Abstract	Research into lexical retrieval requires pictorial stimuli standardised for key psycholinguistic variables. Such databases exist in a number of languages but not in Arabic. In addition there are few studies of the effects of psycholinguistic and morpho-syntactic variables on Arabic lexical retrieval. The current study identified a set of culturally and linguistically appropriate concept labels, and corresponding photographic representations for Levantine Arabic. The set included masculine and feminine nouns, nouns from both types of plural formation (sound and broken), and both rational and irrational nouns. Levantine Arabic speakers provided norms for visual complexity, imageability, age of acquisition, naming latency and name agreement. This delivered a normative database for a set of 186 Arabic nouns. The effects of the morpho-syntactic and the psycholinguistic variables on lexical retrieval were explored using the database. Imageability and age of acquisition were the only significant determinants of successful lexical retrieval in Arabic. None of the other variables, including all the linguistic variables, had any effect on production time. The normative database is available for the use of clinicians and researchers in the Arab world in the domains of speech and language pathology, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics. The database and the photographic representations will be soon available for free download from the first author's personal webpage or via email. (As Provided).
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