Dr Nadine Fitzpatrick nadine.fitzpatrick@durham.ac.uk
Research Associate
Comparing child word associations to adult associative norms: Evidence for child-specific associations with a strong priming effect in 3-year-olds.
Fitzpatrick, Nadine; Floccia, Caroline
Authors
Caroline Floccia
Abstract
Investigating how infants first establish relationships between words is a necessary step towards understanding how an interconnected network of semantic relationships develops in the adult lexical-semantic system. Stimuli selection for these child studies is critical since words must be both familiar and highly imageable. However, there has been a reliance on adult word association norms to inform stimuli selection in English infant studies to date, as no resource currently exists for child-specific word associations. We present three experiments that explore the strength of word-word relationships in 3-year-olds. Experiment 1 collected children's word associations (WA) (N = 150; female = 84, L1 = British English) and compared them to adult associative norms (Moss & Older, 1996; Nelson et al., 2004 (Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36(3), 402-407)). Experiment 2 replicated WAs from Experiment 1 in an online adaptation of the task (N = 24: 13 female, L1 = British English). Both experiments indicated a high proportion of child-specific WAs not represented in adult norms (Moss & Older, 1996; Nelson et al., 2004 (Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36(3), 402-407)). Experiment 3 tested noun-noun WAs from these responses in an online semantic priming study (N = 40: 19 female, L1 = British English) and found that association type modulated priming (F(2.57, 100.1) = 13.13, p <. 0001, generalized η = .19). This research presents a resource of child-specific imageable noun-noun word pair stimuli suitable for testing young children in word recognition and semantic priming studies. [Abstract copyright: © 2024. The Author(s).]
Citation
Fitzpatrick, N., & Floccia, C. (2024). Comparing child word associations to adult associative norms: Evidence for child-specific associations with a strong priming effect in 3-year-olds. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 7168–7218. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02414-3
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | Mar 22, 2024 |
| Online Publication Date | Jun 11, 2024 |
| Publication Date | 2024-10 |
| Deposit Date | Jul 10, 2024 |
| Publicly Available Date | Jul 10, 2024 |
| Journal | Behavior Research Methods |
| Print ISSN | 1554-351X |
| Electronic ISSN | 1554-3528 |
| Publisher | Psychonomic Society |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 56 |
| Pages | 7168–7218 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02414-3 |
| Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2512948 |
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