Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 904-911

  Brysbaert, Marc ^a   Warriner, Amy Beth ^b   Kuperman, Victor ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concreteness; Crowdsourcing; Ratings; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONCEPT FORMATION; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900022860     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-013-0403-5     Document Type: Article

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