Age of acquisition and imageability ratings for a large set of words, including verbs and function words

By Helen Bird, Sue Franklin, David Howard. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Computational Linguistics & Semantics, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Towards fairer datasets: filtering and balancing the distribution of the people subtree in the ImageNet hierarchy (2019, background): “Prior works have demonstrated a strong correlation between familiarity and imageability [9, 32, 78], which explains the low imageability of the less frequent cotter.”
Do children acquire dense neighborhoods? An investigation of similarity neighborhoods in lexical acquisition (2004, neutral): “Multiple databases of adult self-ratings are available (e.g., Bird, Franklin, & Howard, 2001; Carroll & White, 1973a; Gilhooly & Logie, 1980; Morrison, Chappell, & Ellis, 1997; Snodgrass & Yuditsky, 1996).”
The Role of Children's Phonological and Semantic Knowledge in Learning to Read Words (2012, methodology): “Age of acquisition (the average age at which children learn the meaning of a word) was also rated on a 7-point scale, with Point 1 representing 0 to 2 years of age, increasing in 2-year age bands to 13+ years at Point 7 (after Bird, Franklin, & Howard, 2001 ).”
Morphological influences on the recognition of monosyllabic monomorphemic words (2006, background): “In what follows, we will briefly touch upon two other such measures: age of acquisition norms, and norms for imageability, as made available by Bird, Franklin, and Howard (2001).”
Age of acquisition and lexical processing (2006, neutral): “Izura and Ellis (2002) investigated AoA effects in both the first and second languages of bilingual adults who spent their childhoods in Spain, learned English from the age of 11, and were studying in York, UK.”
Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words (2012, methodology): “The number of available AoA ratings in English can be doubled to 6,000 if the ratings of Cortese and Khanna (2008) are combined with those of Gilhooly and Logie (1980a, 1980b), Bird, Franklin, and Howard (2001), and Stadthagen-Gonzalez and Davis (2006).”
What Defines Language Dominance in Bilinguals? (2019, background): “…in one language into another language, not only because of intercultural differences but also because of a range of other factors, such as word frequency, word length, imageability, concreteness, age of acquisition, and neighborhood density (Bird et al. 2001), which may differ across languages.”
Deficits in phonology and past-tense morphology: What's the connection? (2003, methodology): “A further 126 regular single syllable verbs were selected; and this 252item set included a subset of 34 regular and 34 irregular verbs matched pairwise for CV structure of the pasttense forms, rated imageability of the stem forms ( Bird, Franklin, & Howard, 2001; Coltheart, 1981), and frequency.”
N-Watch: A program for deriving neighborhood size and other psycholinguistic statistics (2005, methodology): “The IMG2 output field is drawn from the imageability norms collected by Bird et al. (2001) ; norms for 1,342 words in the default vocabulary are available.”