WordPools (version 1.0-1)

CatProp: Joelson-Hermann Category Properties

Description

Properties of the 56 taxonomic categories from the Battig-Montague category norms published by Joelson and Hermann (1978).

Usage

data(CatProp)

source

Joelson, J. M. & Hermann, D. J. , Properties of categories in semantic memory, American Journal of Psychology, 1978, 91, 101-114.

Details

Includes data for all 56 of the Battig-Montague categories from a preprint of the Joelson-Hermann paper Values for catfreqp were added for categories 3, 4, 8, 15, 24, 27, 32, 46, 47 & 56 from the Kucera-Francis norms, ignoring "part of", "unit of", and taking max of labels connected by "or".

Examples

data(CatProp)
summary(CatProp)
plot(CatProp[,3:10])

# try a biplot
CP <- CatProp
rownames(CP) <- CP$catname
biplot(prcomp(na.omit(CP[,3:12]), scale=TRUE))

# select some categories where the rated age of acquisition is between 2-4
cats <- pickList(CatProp, list(rageoaq=c(2,4)))
cats[,2:9]

# pick some fruit
pickList(subset(Battig, catname=="fruit"))