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AuthorKhwailehT.
AuthorMustafawiE.
AuthorHerbertR.
AuthorHowardD.
Available date2019-10-03T10:50:04Z
Publication Date2018
Publication NameBehavior Research Methods
ResourceScopus
ISSN1554351X
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1019-6
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/12052
AbstractStandardized pictorial stimuli and predictors of successful picture naming are not readily available for Gulf Arabic. On the basis of data obtained from Qatari Arabic, a variety of Gulf Arabic, the present study provides norms for a set of 319 object pictures and a set of 141 action pictures. Norms were collected from healthy speakers, using a picture-naming paradigm and rating tasks. Norms for naming latencies, name agreement, visual complexity, image agreement, imageability, age of acquisition, and familiarity were established. Furthermore, the database includes other intrinsic factors, such as syllable length and phoneme length. It also includes orthographic frequency values (extracted from Aralex; Boudelaa & Marslen-Wilson, 2010). These factors were then examined for their impact on picture-naming latencies in object- and action-naming tasks. The analysis showed that the primary determinants of naming latencies in both nouns and verbs are (in descending order) image agreement, name agreement, familiarity, age of acquisition, and imageability. These results indicate no evidence that noun- and verb-naming processes in Gulf Arabic are influenced in different ways by these variables. This is the first database for Gulf Arabic, and therefore the norms collected from the present study will be of paramount importance for researchers and clinicians working with speakers of this variety of Arabic. Due to the similarity of the Arabic varieties spoken in the Gulf, these different varieties are grouped together under the label �Gulf Arabic� in the literature. The normative databases and the standardized pictures from this study can be downloaded from http://qufaculty.qu.edu.qa/tariq-khwaileh/download-center/.
SponsorFunding This research was funded by a Qatar National Research Fund(National Priorities Research Program), Grant Number NPRP7-1506-3-390.
Languageen
PublisherSpringer NewYork LLC
SubjectAgeofacquisition
Familiarity
GulfArabic
Imageagreement
Imageability
Nameagreement
Naming
Naminglatency
Nouns
Predictors
Verbs
Visualcomplexity
TitleGulf Arabic nouns and verbs: A standardized set of 319 object pictures and 141 action pictures, with predictors of naming latencies
TypeArticle
Pagination2408-2425
Issue Number6
Volume Number50
dc.accessType Abstract Only


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