RT Journal Article
T1 Psycholinguistic and affective norms for 1,252 Spanish idiomatic expressions
A1 Gavilán, José M.
A1 Haro, Juan
A1 Hinojosa, José Antonio
A1 Fraga Carou, Isabel
A1 Ferré, Pilar
K1 Semantics
K1 Language
K1 Psycholinguistics
K1 Emotions
K1 Questionnaires
K1 Syntax
K1 Speech
K1 Speech-language pathology
AB This study provides psycholinguistic and affective norms for 1,252 Spanish idiomatic expressions. A total of 965 Spanish native speakers rated the idioms in 7 subjective variables: familiarity, knowledge of the expression, decomposability, literality, predictability, valence and arousal. Correlational analyses showed that familiarity has a strong positive correlation with knowledge, suggesting that the knowledge of the figurative meaning of an idiom is highly related to its frequency of use. Familiarity has a moderate positive correlation with final word predictability, indicating that the more familiar an idiom is rated, the more predictable it tends to be. Decomposability shows a moderate positive correlation with literality, suggesting that those idioms whose figurative meaning is easier to deduce from their constituents tend to have a plausible literal meaning. In affective terms, Spanish idioms tend to convey more negative (66%) than positive meanings (33%). Furthermore, valence and arousal show a quadratic relationship, in line with the typical U-shaped relationship found for single words, which means that the more emotionally valenced an idiom is rated, the more arousing it is considered to be. This database will provide researchers with a large pool of stimuli for studying the representation and processing of idioms in healthy and clinical populations
PB Plos
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26716
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26716
LA eng
NO PLoS ONE 2021, 16(7): e0254484. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254484
NO Funders: 1. Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities: https://www.ciencia.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/ PF: PID2019-107206GB-I00 JAH: RED2018-102615-T, PGC2018-098558-B-I00 2. Rovira i Virgili University: https://www.urv.cat/en/ PF: 2018PFR-URV-B2-32 3. Community of Madrid: https://www.comunidad.madrid JAH: H2019/HUM-5705 4. Galician Department of Education: https://www.edu.xunta.gal/portal/ IF: GRC 2015/006, ED431B 2019/2020
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026