The present methodological note provides categorization norms for 70 semantic categories collected from 200 participants. The categories were mainly derived from a French translation of the Van Overschelde, Rawson, and Dunlosky (2004) inductor terms including a large set of semantic categories. Our study also extends recent French norms (Léger, Boumlak, {\&} Tijus, 2008; Marchal {\&} Nicolas, 2003) and tests their stability. These 70 cat- egories constitute the widest French categorization norms to date and will be of use to studies in the fields of both linguistics and psycholinguistics. A cross-linguistic comparison, with both quantitative and qualitative results, is also performed, which should prove useful for bilingual and/or cross-linguistic studies. The norms collected for all 70 categories are available for download as supplemental materials from http://brm.psychonomic-journals$\backslash$n.org/content/supplemental.
Participants from three different universities were asked to perform a production task for 70 semantic categories. Categories were displayed one by one, and the participants had 30 sec to typewrite a maximum number of exemplars per category.