title: French categorization norms for 70 semantic categories and comparison with Van Overschelde et al.'s (2004) English norms.
abstract: The present methodological note provides categorization norms for 70 semantic categories collected from 200 participants. The categories were mainly derived from a French translation of the Van Overschelde, Rawson, and Dunlosky (2004) inductor terms including a large set of semantic categories. Our study also extends recent French norms (Léger, Boumlak, & Tijus, 2008; Marchal & Nicolas, 2003) and tests their stability. These 70 categories constitute the widest French categorization norms to date and will be of use to studies in the fields of both linguistics and psycholinguistics. A cross-linguistic comparison, with both quantitative and qualitative results, is also performed, which should prove useful for bilingual and/or cross-linguistic studies. The norms collected for all 70 categories are available for download as supplemental materials from http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.
authors.affiliation: Université de Paris 13, UTRPP-EA 3413, Villetaneuse, France. bueno@univ-paris13.fr
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bueno
authors.forename: Hakima
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Megherbi
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000592:standards*; D012016:Reference Values; D012660:Semantics; D055815:Young Adult