Beyond the abstract-concrete dichotomy: Mode of acquisition, concreteness, imageability, familiarity, age of acquisition, context availability, and abstractness norms for a set of 417 Italian words

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1042-1048

  Della Rosa, Pasquale A ^a,b   Catricalà, Eleonora ^a,c   Vigliocco, Gabriella ^d   Cappa, Stefano F ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78650711627     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.4.1042     Document Type: Article

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