Psycholinguistic norms for 320 fixed expressions (idioms and proverbs) in French

Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2018 May;71(5):1057-1069. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1310269. Epub 2018 Jan 1.

Abstract

We provide psycholinguistic norms for a new set of 160 French idiomatic expressions and 160 proverbs: knowledge, predictability, literality, compositionality, subjective and objective frequency, familiarity, age of acquisition (AoA) and length. Different analyses (reliability, descriptive statistics and correlations) performed on the norms are reported and discussed. The norms can be downloaded as Supplemental Material .

Keywords: Idioms; proverbs; psycholinguistic norms.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Female
  • France
  • Humans
  • Knowledge
  • Language Tests / standards*
  • Male
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Psycholinguistics*
  • Reference Values
  • Semantics*
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Vocabulary
  • Young Adult