title: Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas.
abstract: Concreteness ratings are presented for 37,058 English words and 2,896 two-word expressions (such as zebra crossing and zoom in), obtained from over 4,000 participants by means of a norming study using Internet crowdsourcing for data collection. Although the instructions stressed that the assessment of word concreteness would be based on experiences involving all senses and motor responses, a comparison with the existing concreteness norms indicates that participants, as before, largely focused on visual and haptic experiences. The reported data set is a subset of a comprehensive list of English lemmas and contains all lemmas known by at least 85 % of the raters. It can be used in future research as a reference list of generally known English lemmas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Gent, Belgium, marc.brysbaert@ugent.be.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brysbaert
authors.forename: Amy Beth
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Warriner
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kuperman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003210:Concept Formation; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011578:Psycholinguistics / Q000379:methods*; D012660:Semantics; D014481:United States; D044465:White People; D055815:Young Adult