Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages : Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?

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Łuniewska, Magdalena
Haman, Ewa
Armon-Lotem, Sharon
Etenkowski, Bartłomiej
Southwood, Frenette
Anđelković, Darinka
Blom, Elma
Fritsche, Nelly-Ann
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Behavior Research Methods ; 48 (2016), 3. - pp. 1154-1177. - ISSN 0005-7878. - eISSN 1532-5970
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We present a new set of subjective age-of-acquisition (AoA) ratings for 299 words (158 nouns, 141 verbs) in 25 languages from five language families (Afro-Asiatic: Semitic languages; Altaic: one Turkic language: Indo-European: Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Slavic, and Romance languages; Niger-Congo: one Bantu language; Uralic: Finnic and Ugric languages). Adult native speakers reported the age at which they had learned each word. We present a comparison of the AoA ratings across all languages by contrasting them in pairs. This comparison shows a consistency in the orders of ratings across the 25 languages. The data were then analyzed (1) to ascertain how the demographic characteristics of the participants influenced AoA estimations and (2) to assess differences caused by the exact form of the target question (when did you learn vs. when do children learn this word); (3) to compare the ratings obtained in our study to those of previous studies; and (4) to assess the validity of our study by comparison with quasi-objective AoA norms derived from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI). All 299 words were judged as being acquired early (mostly before the age of 6 years). AoA ratings were associated with the raters' social or language status, but not with the raters' age or education. Parents reported words as being learned earlier, and bilinguals reported learning them later. Estimations of the age at which children learn the words revealed significantly lower ratings of AoA. Finally, comparisons with previous AoA and MB-CDI norms support the validity of the present estimations. Our AoA ratings are available for research or other purposes.
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ISO 690ŁUNIEWSKA, Magdalena, Ewa HAMAN, Sharon ARMON-LOTEM, Bartłomiej ETENKOWSKI, Frenette SOUTHWOOD, Darinka ANĐELKOVIĆ, Elma BLOM, Tanja RINKER, Theodoros MARINIS, Nelly-Ann FRITSCHE, 2016. Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages : Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?. In: Behavior Research Methods. 48(3), pp. 1154-1177. ISSN 0005-7878. eISSN 1532-5970. Available under: doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0636-6
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  doi={10.3758/s13428-015-0636-6},
  title={Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages : Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?},
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  volume={48},
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  journal={Behavior Research Methods},
  pages={1154--1177},
  author={Łuniewska, Magdalena and Haman, Ewa and Armon-Lotem, Sharon and Etenkowski, Bartłomiej and Southwood, Frenette and Anđelković, Darinka and Blom, Elma and Rinker, Tanja and Marinis, Theodoros and Fritsche, Nelly-Ann}
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