Timed picture naming norms for Cantonese

Abstract

The present study is to provide Cantonese norms for age of acquisition (AoA), familiarity, imageability, name agreement, visual complexity, and word frequency for 144 line drawings of objects and 86 of actions taken from Object and Action Naming Battery (Druks & Masterson, 2000) for Cantonese-English speakers from Hong Kong. In the preparatory study, ratings were obtained for Cantonese words from a group of 54 Cantonese- English speakers. In the main experiment, naming latencies for the pictures were collected with a timed picture naming experiment with a different group of 60 Cantonese-English bilinguals in their native language (Cantonese). Linear Mixed Effects (LME) modelling was used to analyse the naming data. Significant main effects were found for the variables: AoA, familiairity, imageability, name agreement and visual complexity. No significant difference was observed between object and action naming latencies. This study is among the first to report normed picture naming data from bilinguals which make a majority of the world population.