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Measuring Symbol and Icon Characteristics: Norms for Concreteness, Complexity, Meaningfulness, Familiarity, and Semantic Distance for 239 Symbols [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This paper provides rating norms for a set of symbols and icons selected from a wide variety of sources. These ratings enable the effects of symbol characteristics on user performance to be systematically investigated.
Curry, M., De Bruijn, O., McDougall, S.
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On the Geometry of Concreteness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In this paper we investigate how concreteness and abstractness are represented in word embedding spaces. We use data for English and German, and show that concreteness and abstractness can be determined independently and turn out to be completely ...
Wartena, Christian
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A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Recently, considerable attention has been given to the effect of the age of acquisition (AoA) on learning a second language (L2); however, the scarcity of L2 AoA ratings has limited advancements in this field.
Jue Wang, Baoguo Chen
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Concreteness/abstractness ratings for two-character Chinese words in MELD-SCH.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
The concreteness-abstractness continuum is considered a primary dimension in the representation of semantic networks. Its theoretical importance and clinical significance are widely acknowledged.
Xu Xu, Jiayin Li
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Relations Between L2 Proficiency and L1 Lexical Property Evaluations

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The present study investigates the relations between L2-English proficiency and L1-Turkish lexical property evaluations. We asked whether L2 proficiency affects lexical properties, including imageability and concreteness ratings of 600 Turkish words ...
Elif Altın   +4 more
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The Concreteness of Concrete Art [PDF]

open access: yesParallax, 2015
In the artistic and cultural lexicon of the short twentieth century, the term ‘concrete’ recurs repeatedly.
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Reduced concreteness of worry in generalized anxiety disorder: Findings from a therapy study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
A sample of clients diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) provided descriptions of the two major problems they worried about and of potential negative consequences associated with these problems, once before and once after they received ...
Stoeber, Joachim, Borkovec, T.D.
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A concreteness effect in morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from the variation in the choice of clausal complements in Serbian [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija
This paper presents findings on the concreteness effect observed in the selection of clausal complements in Serbian. While concreteness effects have predominantly been explored in the realm of word processing, this study contributes to a limited body of ...
Arsenijević Boban   +2 more
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Metaphors are physical and abstract: ERPs to metaphorically modified nouns resemble ERPs to abstract language

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Metaphorical expressions very often involve words referring to physical entities and experiences. Yet, figures of speech such as metaphors are not intended to be understood literally, word-by-word.
Bálint eForgács   +5 more
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Concrete Fibrations [PDF]

open access: yesNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 2017
As far as we know no notion of concreteness for fibrations exists. We introduce such a notion and discuss some basic results about it.
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