Cannard Christine, Kandel Sonia
CNRS, UMR 5105, Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble, France.
Behav Res Methods. 2008 Nov;40(4):1055-64. doi: 10.3758/BRM.40.4.1055.
In picture-naming tasks, participants name a picture as quickly as possible. In several studies, when the participant did not provide the picture name in the first seconds after object presentation, the examiner provided phonemic or semantic cues. Under these conditions, word retrieval should be easier, thus lowering the age of acquisition (AoA). The goal of the present study was to collect objective norms of AoA in French without any kind of cue. The results were then compared with other European databases that relied on picture-naming tasks conducted with phonemic or semantic cues. Globally, the data of all the databases are significantly correlated. However, the AoA measures in these databases are always lower than in our study, except in Alvarez and Cuetos (2007), who did not provide any assistance to the participant. Therefore, giving phonemic and/or semantic cues lowers the AoA values, indicating that the values from different databases in this domain should be taken with caution. The objective AoA norms from this study may be downloaded from the Psychonomic Society's Archive of Norms, Stimuli, and Data, www.psychonomic.org/archive.
在图片命名任务中，参与者要尽快说出图片的名称。在几项研究中，当参与者在物体呈现后的最初几秒内没有说出图片名称时，考官会提供音素或语义线索。在这些条件下，词汇提取应该更容易，从而降低习得年龄（AoA）。本研究的目的是收集法语中无任何线索情况下的客观AoA规范。然后将结果与其他依赖于在有音素或语义线索情况下进行的图片命名任务的欧洲数据库进行比较。总体而言，所有数据库的数据都显著相关。然而，除了阿尔瓦雷斯和奎托斯（2007年）未向参与者提供任何帮助外，这些数据库中的AoA测量值总是低于我们的研究。因此，给予音素和/或语义线索会降低AoA值，这表明在该领域不同数据库的值应谨慎对待。本研究的客观AoA规范可从心理onomic学会的规范、刺激和数据存档网站www.psychonomic.org/archive下载。
