Subjective ratings of the concreteness, valence, and crosslingual similarity (with Dutch) of two-word English expressions

These data are described in:

S Lindstromberg & J Eyckmans. The retrievability of L2 English multi-word items in a context of strongly form-focused exposure: What matters? Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Accepted 31 May, 2020.

The data were collected for an investigation of the effects of a number of pedagogical and lexical variables on the memorability of the forms of two-word English expressions of miscellaneous syntactic structure. The data consist of ratings of Concreteness, Valence, and Similarity (i.e., cognateness and congruence between L1 Dutch and L2 English).

The first five columns relate to Concreteness; the next five to Valence; and the last four to Similarity. As detailed in the article mentioned above, it was possible to validate the the ratings of Concreteness and Similarity owing to modest overlapping coverage with existing databases, namely:

## Brysbaert, M, Warriner, A., & Kuperman, V. (2014). Concreteness ratings for 40,000 generally known English word lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 46, 904– 11. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-013-0403-5

## Warriner A., Kuperman, V., & Brysbaert, M. (2013). Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 1191–1207. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0314-x

For all three sets of ratings indicators of internal reliability are good:

Concreteness: Mean split-half r(5000) = .93; Spearman-Brown corrected reliability = .96; SD = 0.11.

Valence: split.h r = .95, SB corr reliability = .98; SD = 0.08;

Similarity: split.h r = .95, SB corr reliability = .98; SD = 0.10 We used the R function 'splithalf.r' in the package 'multicon' (Sherman & Serfas, 2011) to calculate the mean of 5000 split-half correlations across the ratings of all raters, with the split randomly chosen each time.

## Sherman, R., & Serfas, D. (2011). multicon (Multivariate constructs), Version 1.6. http://127.0.0.1:13752/library/multicon/html/multicon-package.html