sizeRatings: Size ratings for 81 English concrete nouns

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Size ratings for 81 English concrete nouns

Description

Subjective estimates of the size of the referents of 81 English concrete nouns, collected from 38 subjects.

Usage

data(sizeRatings)

Format

A data frame with 3078 observations on the following 7 variables.

Rating

a numeric vector with subjective estimates of the size of the word's referent.

Subject

a factor with subjects as levels.

Word

a factor with words as levels.

Class

a factor with levels animal and plant.

Naive

a factor with levels naive and notNaive, coding whether the subject new about the purpose of the experiment.

Language

a factor with levels English and notEnglish coding whether the subject was a native speaker of English.

MeanFamiliarity

a numeric vector for the by-item mean familiarity ratings.

Details

Data collected with Jen Hay, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2004.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(sizeRatings)
require(lme4)
require(lmerTest)
require(optimx)
sizeRatings.lmer = lmer(Rating ~ Class * Naive + 
  MeanFamiliarity * Language + (1|Subject) + (1|Word), 
  control=lmerControl(optimizer="optimx",optCtrl=list(method="nlminb")),
  data = sizeRatings)
summary(sizeRatings.lmer)

## End(Not run)

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