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The French Lexicon Project: Lexical decision data for 38,840 French words and 38,840 pseudowords

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The French Lexicon Project involved the collection of lexical decision data for 38,840 French words and the same number of nonwords. It was directly inspired by the English Lexicon Project (Balota et al., 2007) and produced very comparable frequency and word length effects. The present article describes the methods used to collect the data, reports analyses on the word frequency and the word length effects, and describes the Excel files that make the data freely available for research purposes. The word and pseudoword data from this article may be downloaded from http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental.

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  1. Laboratoire de Pscyhologie Sociale et Cognitive, CNRS and University Blaise Pascal, 34 avenue Carnot, 63037, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Ludovic Ferrand, Alain Méot & Maria Augustinova

  2. CNRS and University Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Boris New

  3. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Marc Brysbaert & Emmanuel Keuleers

  4. CNRS and University of Burgundy, Dijon, France

    Patrick Bonin

  5. Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, U562, Gif/Yvette, France

    Christophe Pallier

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This work was supported by ANR Grant 06-CORP-00101 to L.F. (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France).

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Ferrand, L., New, B., Brysbaert, M. et al. The French Lexicon Project: Lexical decision data for 38,840 French words and 38,840 pseudowords. Behavior Research Methods 42, 488–496 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.2.488

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