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This study describes the collection of a large set of word association norms. In a continuous word association task, norms for 1,424 Dutch words were gathered. For each cue, three association responses were obtained per participant. In total, an average of 268 responses were collected for each cue. We investigated the relationship with similar procedures, such as discrete association tasks and exemplar generation tasks. The results show that the use of a continuous task allows the study of weaker associations in comparison with a discrete task. The effects of the continuous tasks were investigated for set size and the availability characteristics of the responses, measured through word frequency, age of acquisition, and imageability. Finally, we compared our findings to those of a semantically constrained version of the association task in which participants generated responses within the domain of a semantic category. Results of this comparison are discussed. The Appendix cited in this article is available at www.psychonomic.org/archive.
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This work was supported by Grant OT/01/15 from the Leuven University Council and Grant G.02666.02 from the Belgian National Science Foundation, awarded to the second author.
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De Deyne, S., Storms, G. Word associations: Norms for 1,424 Dutch words in a continuous task. Behav Res 40, 198–205 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.40.1.198
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