A Picture Database for Verbs and Nouns with Different Action Content in Turkish

Bayram E., AYDIN Ö., Ergenc H. I., AKBOSTANCI M. C.

JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH, cilt.46, sa.4, ss.847-861, 2017 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 46 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10936-016-9471-x
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.847-861
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Verb, Noun, Picture database, Action, Non-action, AGE-OF-ACQUISITION, VANDERWART PICTURES, WORD-FREQUENCY, NAMING TIMES, OBJECT RECOGNITION, NAME AGREEMENT, FAMILIARITY, SNODGRASS, CONCRETENESS, SET
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study we present a picture database of 160 nouns and 160 verbs. All verbs and nouns are divided into two groups as action and non-action words. Age of acquisition, familiarity, imageability, name agreement and complexity norms are reported alongside frequency, word length and morpheme count for each word. Data were collected from 600 native Turkish adults in total. The results show that although several measures have weak correlations with each other, only age of acquisition had moderate downhill relationships with familiarity and frequency with familiarity and frequency having a rather strong positive correlation with each other. The norms and the picture database are available as supplemental materials for use in psycholinguistic studies in Turkish.