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      Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malay, Persian and Western Armenian

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          We present a new set of subjective Age of Acquisition (AoA) ratings for 299 words (158 nouns, 141 verbs) in seven languages from various language families and cultural settings: American English, Czech, Scottish Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malaysian Malay, Persian, and Western Armenian. The ratings were collected from a total of 173 participants and were highly reliable in each language. We applied the same method of data collection as used in a previous study on 25 languages which allowed us to create a database of fully comparable AoA ratings of 299 words in 32 languages. We found that in the seven languages not included in the previous study, the words are estimated to be acquired at roughly the same age as in the previously reported languages, i.e. mostly between the ages of 1 and 7 years. We also found that the order of word acquisition is moderately to highly correlated across all 32 languages, which extends our previous conclusion that early words are acquired in similar order across a wide range of languages and cultures.

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              Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns.

              The present study describes normative measures for 626 Italian simple nouns. The database (LEXVAR.XLS) is freely available for down-loading on the Web site http://wwwistc.ip.rm.cnr.it/materia/database/. For each of the 626 nouns, values for the following variables are reported: age of acquisition, familiarity, imageability, concreteness, adult written frequency, child written frequency, adult spoken frequency, number of orthographic neighbors, mean bigram frequency, length in syllables, and length in letters. A classification of lexical stress and of the type of word-initial phoneme is also provided. The intercorrelations among the variables, a factor analysis, and the effects of variables and of the extracted factors on word naming are reported. Naming latencies were affected primarily by a factor including word length and neighborhood size and by a word frequency factor. Neither a semantic factor including imageability, concreteness, and age of acquisition nor a factor defined by mean bigram frequency had significant effects on pronunciation times. These results hold for a language with shallow orthography, like Italian, for which lexical nonsemantic properties have been shown to affect reading aloud. These norms are useful in a variety of research areas involving the manipulation and control of stimulus attributes.
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                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                8 August 2019
                2019
                : 14
                : 8
                : e0220611
                Affiliations
                [1 ] University of Warsaw, Faculty of Psychology, Warsaw, Poland
                [2 ] Jagiellonian University, Institute of Psychology, Krakow, Poland
                [3 ] Pennsylvania State University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
                [4 ] Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic
                [5 ] University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
                [6 ] Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon
                [7 ] Saint Joseph University of Beirut, High Institute of Speech and Language Therapy, Beirut, Lebanon
                [8 ] Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Health Science, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
                [9 ] University of Reading, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, Reading, United Kingdom
                [10 ] Universiti Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Serdang, Malaysia
                [11 ] Allameh Tabatabai University, Department of Linguistics and Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages, Teheran, Iran
                [12 ] University of Tours, UMR 1253, iBrain, Tours, France
                Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FRANCE
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-9766
                Article
                PONE-D-19-07819
                10.1371/journal.pone.0220611
                6687123
                31393919
                90394650-0342-4b95-8a56-1ab43e2abf58
                © 2019 Łuniewska et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 18 March 2019
                : 19 July 2019
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                Figures: 3, Tables: 4, Pages: 19
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                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100012825, International Visegrad Fund;
                Award ID: 21420015
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
                Award ID: DSM 11710/2017
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: Kościuszko Foundation
                Award ID: 2015
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004569, Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego;
                Award ID: Mobility Plus Fellowship
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: University of Reading
                Award ID: CeLM pump priming fund
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: Bòrd na Gàidhlig
                Award ID: 1718/44
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
                Award ID: 809/N-COST/2010/0
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
                Award ID: 809/N-COST/2010/0
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                This study was designed as a part of a multilingual parallel construction procedure of LITMUS Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks ( www.psychologia.pl/clts) within the networking program COST Action IS0804 “Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment” ( www.bi-sli.org; 2010-2013). The research (website design and maintenance) was supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Grant No. 809/N-COST/2010/0, awarded to the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, in cooperation with Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University; Principal Investigators: Ewa Haman & Zofia Wodniecka). The research was supported by Visegrad Fund (Standard Grant 21420015: “Bilingual assessment of child lexical knowledge: new method for Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian” awarded to the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw; PI Ewa Haman), internal grant of Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw (DSM 11710/2017; PI Magdalena Łuniewska), Kościuszko Foundation fellowship awarded to Ewa Haman (2015) and Mobility Plus Fellowship from Ministry of Science and Higher Education awarded to Zofia Wodniecka (2015), CeLM Pump Priming Fund, University of Reading, UK awarded to Jeanine Treffers-Daller (2014): “Developing Crosslinguistic Lexical Tasks for Bilingual Malay Children in Malaysia”, and Bòrd na Gàidhlig grant awarded to Vicky Chondrogianni (2017, award number: 1718/44): “Supporting children with Developmental Language Disorder in Gaelic-medium primary education”.
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