Normative data for number of word meanings

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AuthorsFerraro, F. Richard OAKellas, GeorgeOA

Year1990

JournalBehavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

DOI10.3758/bf03204432

Abstract

A corpus of 576 words and orthographically legal pseudowords was rated by 150 undergraduates to obtain a subjective estimate of the number of meanings possessed by the stimuli. The information contained in this corpus may be used to supplement current, sources of word-meaning information (e.g., total number of dictionary entries). Experimental evidence is presented that supports the reliability of the normative data.

LanguageEnglish

Stimuli typewords, pseudowords

Stimuli count576

Participant typeundergraduate students

Participant count150

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Undergraduates rated words and pseudowords for number of meanings, using a rating scale in which "no meaning" was represented by "0," "only one meaning" was represented by "1," and ''more than one meaning'' was represented by "2."

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