Picture naming in 3- to 8-year-old French children: Methodological considerations for name agreement |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Christine?CannardEmail author Agnès?Blaye Nelly?Scheuner Fran?oise?Bonthoux |
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Institution: | Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, CNRS UMR 5105, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France. christine.cannard@upmf-grenoble.fr |
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Abstract: | Picture naming has become an important experimental paradigm in cognitive psychology. Young children are more variable than
adults in their naming responses and less likely to know the object or its name. A consequence is that the interpretation
of the two classical measures used by Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980) for scoring name agreement in adults (the percentage
of agreement, based on modal name, and theH statistic, based on alternative names) will differ because of the high rate of “don’t know object” responses, common in young
children, relative to the low rate of “don’t know object” responses more characteristic of adults. The present study focused
on this methodological issue in young French children (3–8 years old), using a set of 145 Snodgrass-Vanderwart pictures. Our
results indicate that the percentage of agreement based on the expected name is a better measure of picture-naming performance
than are the commonly used measures. The norms may be downloaded from www.psychonomic.org/archive. |
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