Age of acquisition ratings for 3,000 monosyllabic words

Age - of - acquisition ratings for 30 thousand English words

Subjective frequency estimates for 2,938 monosyllabic words.

Subjective frequency estimates for large sample of monosyllabic English words were collected from 574 young adults (undergraduate students) and from a separate group of 1,590 adults of varying ages and educational backgrounds. Estimates from the latter group were collected via the internet. In addition, 90 healthy older adults provided estimates for a random sample of 480 of these words. All gr...

Rated age-of-acquisition norms for over 3,200 German words.

Words that have been learned early in life are responded to faster than words that have been acquired later. Subjective ratings of acquisition ages have been successfully employed to study the effect of age of acquisition (AoA). Although a large number of norms exist in many languages, fewer are available for German. Therefore, subjective AoA ratings for 3,259 German words were collected online...

A Study of Age-of-acquisition (AoA) Ratings in Adults

Certain word attributes such as frequency have been traditionally thought to be the best predictors of performance on a lexical task (e.g., picture naming). However, mounting evidence suggests that in certain lexical tasks, frequency effects maybe wholly or partly explained by age-of-acquisition (AoA). This paper reports the results of an age-ofacquisition study in which adults’ ratings and res...

The special phonological characteristics of monosyllabic function words in English

Monosyllabic Function Words of American English, such as articles (e.g. the, a), pronouns (him, them) and conjunctions (and, or), are notorious for their pronunciation variability in continuous speech. This study explores one potential correlate of this variation: the phonological character of Function Word forms. The Brown Corpus of 1 million words of written text, with each word token labeled...