Word association norms in Mexican older adults

IF 0.6 Q3 LINGUISTICS

Mental Lexicon Pub Date : 2022-10-06 DOI:10.1075/ml.22001.ari

Natalia Arias-Trejo, G. Bel-Enguix, J. B. Barrón-Martínez, A. Minto-García, Ó. Arias-Carrión, Martha M. González-González

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Abstract

Aging involves a variety of cognitive and language changes. Word association norms (WANs), which describe the first word people say or write after reading or hearing a stimulus word, reflect the organization of semantic knowledge. The aim of this study was to create a WAN corpus for Mexican older adults, with 114 participants responding to 117 nouns. The results of eight measures of word-word relationships showed that participants generated an average of 38.14 different response words for each stimulus word. Of these responses, 41.88% were of high associative strength and 20.70% were idiosyncratic, demonstrating the uniqueness of responses of older adults. In addition, we compared their responses to a corpus for younger adults (Barrón-Martínez & Arias-Trejo, 2014). A qualitative analysis categorizing the responses into syntagmatic and paradigmatic types showed that the older group tended to respond with words from a different grammatical class. Responses of the younger adults were also more cohesive and less varied than those of the older group. This corpus for older adults is an essential resource for evaluating age-related changes in semantic memory, and it provides a point of comparison for responses from people with neurodegenerative diseases.

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墨西哥老年人的词汇联想规范

衰老涉及多种认知和语言变化。单词联想规范(WANs)描述了人们在阅读或听到刺激词后所说或写的第一个单词，反映了语义知识的组织。这项研究的目的是为墨西哥老年人创建一个WAN语料库，114名参与者对117个名词做出反应。8项词-词关系测量的结果显示，参与者对每个刺激词平均产生38.14个不同的反应词。其中，41.88%的应答具有高联想强度，20.70%的应答具有特质性，显示出老年人应答的独特性。此外，我们将他们的反应与年轻人的语料库进行了比较(Barrón-Martínez & Arias-Trejo, 2014)。一项定性分析将回答分为组合型和聚合型，结果表明，年龄较大的一组倾向于用不同语法类别的词来回答。年轻人的反应也比老年组更有凝聚力，变化更少。老年人语料库是评估与年龄相关的语义记忆变化的重要资源，它为神经退行性疾病患者的反应提供了一个比较点。

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Mental Lexicon LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： The Mental Lexicon is an interdisciplinary journal that provides an international forum for research that bears on the issues of the representation and processing of words in the mind and brain. We encourage both the submission of original research and reviews of significant new developments in the understanding of the mental lexicon. The journal publishes work that includes, but is not limited to the following: Models of the representation of words in the mind Computational models of lexical access and production Experimental investigations of lexical processing Neurolinguistic studies of lexical impairment. Functional neuroimaging and lexical representation in the brain Lexical development across the lifespan Lexical processing in second language acquisition The bilingual mental lexicon Lexical and morphological structure across languages Formal models of lexical structure Corpus research on the lexicon New experimental paradigms and statistical techniques for mental lexicon research.