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The Galician MultiPic: a picture dataset that captures lexical variation

Álvarez de la Granja, M., Parafita Couto, M. C., Sá-Leite, A. R., Fraga, I., Duñabeitia, J. A., Pliatsikas, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7093-1773 and Comesaña, M. (2025) The Galician MultiPic: a picture dataset that captures lexical variation. Frontiers in Psychology, 16. 1551000. ISSN 1664-1078

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To link to this item DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1551000

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The Multilingual Picture (MultiPic) database has been instrumental in advancing psycholinguistic research by providing standardized norms for colored images across multiple languages. However, many lesser-studied languages remain underrepresented. This study introduces the Galician MultiPic dataset, which provides norms for naming agreement and conceptual familiarity for 500 colored images. Galician, a Western Ibero-Romance language spoken in northwestern Spain, represents a distinct linguistic context due to its bilingual coexistence with Spanish. Data were collected from 85 Galician speakers (all Galician-Spanish bilinguals). Results indicate an average name agreement (H statistic) of 0.71, reflecting the linguistic variability inherent to Galician. This new resource broadens the scope of MultiPic, enabling cross-linguistic comparisons and facilitating psycholinguistic studies in Galician. The dataset is publicly accessible, offering researchers a valuable tool for exploring cognitive processes within bilingual environments.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM)
Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN)
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Language and Cognition
ID Code:121829
Uncontrolled Keywords:Picture Dataset, Galician, lexical variation, naming agreement, familiarity
Publisher:Frontiers Media

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