Predictors of timed picture naming in Chinese. Export

@article{citeulike:2845707, abstract = {We report normative data collected from Mainland Chinese speakers for 232 objects taken from Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980). These data include adult ratings of concept familiarity, age of acquisition (AoA), printed-word frequency, and word length (in syllables), as well as measures of rated visual complexity, image agreement, and name agreement. We then examined timed picture naming of these objects with native Chinese speakers in Beijing in two experiments using line drawings and colored pictures. In both experiments, the variables name agreement, rated concept familiarity, and AoA made significant independent contributions to naming latency in multiple regression analyses. We observed a correlation of r = .85 between naming latency with line drawings and colored pictures and a reduced effect of image agreement on naming when colored pictures were presented. We discuss the implications of our findings for the study of lexical processing in Chinese. Normative data for 232 Chinese nouns may be downloaded from www.psychonomic.org/archive.}, address = {Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. bsw@biols.susx.ac.uk}, author = {Weekes, B. S. and Shu, H. and Hao, M. and Liu, Y. and Tan, L. H.}, citeulike-article-id = {2845707}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17695362}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17695362}, issn = {1554-351X}, journal = {Behavior research methods}, keywords = {age-of-acquisition, chinese, naming, picture}, month = {May}, number = {2}, pages = {335--342}, posted-at = {2008-05-29 19:44:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Predictors of timed picture naming in Chinese.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17695362}, volume = {39}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2845707 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2845707 N2 - We report normative data collected from Mainland Chinese speakers for 232 objects taken from Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980). These data include adult ratings of concept familiarity, age of acquisition (AoA), printed-word frequency, and word length (in syllables), as well as measures of rated visual complexity, image agreement, and name agreement. We then examined timed picture naming of these objects with native Chinese speakers in Beijing in two experiments using line drawings and colored pictures. In both experiments, the variables name agreement, rated concept familiarity, and AoA made significant independent contributions to naming latency in multiple regression analyses. We observed a correlation of r = .85 between naming latency with line drawings and colored pictures and a reduced effect of image agreement on naming when colored pictures were presented. We discuss the implications of our findings for the study of lexical processing in Chinese. Normative data for 232 Chinese nouns may be downloaded from www.psychonomic.org/archive. IS - 2 JF - Behavior research methods SN - 1554-351X AD - Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. bsw@biols.susx.ac.uk EP - 342 TI - Predictors of timed picture naming in Chinese. VL - 39 SP - 335 KW - age-of-acquisition KW - chinese KW - naming KW - picture AU - Weekes, BS AU - Shu, H AU - Hao, M AU - Liu, Y AU - Tan, LH PY - 2007/05// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17695362 ER -