Nenadić Filip, Bujandrić Katarina, Kelley Matthew C, Tucker Benjamin V
Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Haus 14 (Room II.14.313) Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.
Independent researcher, Berlin, Germany.
Behav Res Methods. 2025 Apr 2;57(5):136. doi: 10.3758/s13428-025-02628-z.
We present SingleMALD, a large-scale auditory lexical decision study in English with a fully crossed design. SingleMALD is freely available and includes over 2 million trials in which 40 native speakers of English responded to over 26,000 different words and over 9000 different pseudowords, each in 67 balanced sessions. SingleMALD features a large number of responses per stimulus, but a smaller number of participants, thus complementing the Massive Auditory Lexical Decision (MALD) dataset which features many listeners but fewer responses per stimulus. In the present report, we also use SingleMALD data to explore how extensive testing affects performance in the auditory lexical decision task. SingleMALD participants show signs of favoring speed over accuracy as the sessions unfold. Additionally, we find that the relationship between participant performance and two lexical predictors - word frequency and phonological neighborhood density - changes as sessions unfold, especially for certain lexical predictor values. We note that none of the changes are drastic, indicating that data collected from participants that have been extensively tested is usable, although we recommend accounting for participant experience with the task when performing statistical analyses of the data.
我们展示了SingleMALD，这是一项采用完全交叉设计的大规模英语听觉词汇判断研究。SingleMALD免费提供，包含超过200万次试验，其中40名以英语为母语的人在67个平衡的会话中对超过26000个不同的单词和超过9000个不同的伪词做出反应。SingleMALD的特点是每个刺激有大量反应，但参与者数量较少，从而补充了大规模听觉词汇判断（MALD）数据集，后者的特点是有许多听众，但每个刺激的反应较少。在本报告中，我们还使用SingleMALD数据来探索广泛测试如何影响听觉词汇判断任务的表现。随着会话的展开，SingleMALD的参与者表现出倾向于速度而非准确性的迹象。此外，我们发现参与者表现与两个词汇预测指标——词频和语音邻域密度——之间的关系随着会话的展开而变化，特别是对于某些词汇预测指标值。我们注意到，这些变化都不剧烈，这表明从经过广泛测试的参与者那里收集的数据是可用的，不过我们建议在对数据进行统计分析时考虑参与者对任务的经验。
