Department of Psychology and CRAMC, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
Centro de Investigación Nebrija en Cognición, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain.
Behav Res Methods. 2023 Sep;55(6):3198-3217. doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-01959-5. Epub 2022 Sep 9.
In this study, we present word prevalence data (i.e., the number of people who know a given word) for 40,777 Catalan words. An online massive visual lexical decision task involving more than 200,000 native speakers of this language was carried out. The characteristics of the participants as well as those of the words which mostly influence word knowledge were examined. Regarding the participants, the analysis of the data revealed that their age was the main factor influencing vocabulary size, followed by their educational level and other variables such as the number of languages spoken and their level of proficiency in Catalan. Concerning the words, by far the most determining factor was lexical frequency, with a minor influence of both length and the size of the orthographic neighborhood. These data mainly agree with those reported in other languages in which the same variables have been analyzed (Dutch, English, and Spanish, thus far). Therefore, the list is increased with Catalan, a language which, due to its use in an essentially bilingual context, is of special interest to researchers interested in the field of bilingualism and second language acquisition.
在这项研究中，我们呈现了 40777 个加泰罗尼亚语单词的词频数据（即知道给定单词的人数）。我们进行了一项涉及超过 20 万母语为该语言的人的在线大规模视觉词汇决策任务。我们检查了参与者的特征以及对词汇知识影响最大的单词特征。关于参与者，数据分析表明，年龄是影响词汇量的主要因素，其次是教育水平以及其他变量，如使用的语言数量和他们在加泰罗尼亚语方面的熟练程度。关于单词，到目前为止，最具决定性的因素是词汇频率，长度和正字法邻域的大小也有一定的影响。这些数据主要与在其他语言中分析的相同变量（迄今为止的荷兰语、英语和西班牙语）报告的数据一致。因此，由于其在本质上双语环境中的使用，加泰罗尼亚语的词汇表得到了扩充，这对双语和第二语言习得领域的研究人员特别感兴趣。
