title: Reliability of familiarity rating of ordinary Japanese words for different years and places.
abstract: Two-word familiarity sets were measured in different years (1995 and 2002) and places (Kanto and Kinki, in Japan) for a large number of Japanese words, to examine the reliability of familiarity ratings. The correlation between the word familiarities of the two sets was extremely high (r = .958, N = 10,515). It is suggested that familiarity rating, at least for ordinary words found in a dictionary, is very reliable and not greatly affected by differences in years and places.
authors.affiliation: NTT Corporation, Kyoto, Japan. amano@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp
authors.forename: Smigeaki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Amano
authors.forename: Kaname
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.forename: Tadahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kondo
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012660:Semantics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014825:Vocabulary