Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Persian Gulf University, 7516913817, Bushehr, Iran.
Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, P217 Biological Sciences Building, T6G 2E9, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2022 Oct;51(5):957-979. doi: 10.1007/s10936-022-09863-x. Epub 2022 Apr 2.
In recent years large datasets of lexical processing times have been released for several languages, including English, French, Spanish, and Dutch. Such datasets have enabled us to study, compare, and model the global effects of many psycholinguistic measures such as word frequency, orthographic neighborhood (ON) size, and word length. We have compiled and publicly released a frequency and ON dictionary of 64,546 words and 1800 plausible NWs from a language that has been relatively little studied by psycholinguists: Persian. We have also collected visual lexical decision reaction times for 1800 Persian words and nonwords. Persian offers an interesting psycholinguistic environment for several reasons, including that it has few long words and has resultantly dense orthographic neighborhoods. These characteristics provide us with an opportunity to contrast how these factors affect lexical access by comparing them to several other languages. The results suggest that sensitivity to word length and orthographic neighbourhood may reflect the statistical structure of a particular language, rather than being a universal element of lexical processing. The dictionary and LDRT data are available from https://osf.io/tb4m6/ .
近年来，包括英语、法语、西班牙语和荷兰语在内的多种语言的词汇处理时间的大型数据集已经发布。这些数据集使我们能够研究、比较和建模许多心理语言学措施的全球效应，例如词频、正字法邻近（ON）大小和词长。我们编译并公开发布了一个频率和 ON 词典，其中包含 64546 个单词和 1800 个来自一种相对较少被心理语言学家研究的语言的合理的 NW：波斯语。我们还收集了 1800 个波斯语单词和非单词的视觉词汇决策反应时间。波斯语为心理语言学提供了一个有趣的环境，原因有几个，包括它几乎没有长词，并且因此具有密集的正字法邻近。这些特征为我们提供了一个机会，通过将其与其他几种语言进行比较，来对比这些因素如何影响词汇访问。结果表明，对词长和正字法邻近的敏感性可能反映了特定语言的统计结构，而不是词汇处理的普遍要素。词典和 LDRT 数据可在 https://osf.io/tb4m6/ 获得。
