What is the English Lexicon Project?

The goal of the English Lexicon Project (ELP) is to collect normative data for speeded naming and lexical decision for over 40,000 words across 1200 subjects at 6 different universities. These data will be integrated into a database along with descriptive characteristics of the words used in the study. Researchers interested in psycholinguistics, human memory, computational modeling, and other fields will find these data useful. For example, researchers will be better equipped to select stimuli, test theories, and reduce potential confounds in their studies.

Acknowledgements:

This project was a collaboration across 6 universities and is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to David A. Balota.

We would like to thank our site directors at each of the universities for all their effort and helpful discusions on this project:

    Morehead State Michael Cortese
    SUNY Albany James Neely
    University of Kansas Greg Simpson
    Univeristy of South Florida Douglas Nelson
    Washington University Keith Hutchison
    Greg Burgess
    Melvin Yap
    Wayne State University Rebecca Treiman
We would also like to thank the following people at each instituiton for their help in running participants:
    Morehead State April Fugget
    SUNY Albany Jeff Johnson
    University of Kansas Mark C. Yates
    Lawrence Locker Jr.
    Univeristy of South Florida Leilani Goodman
    Wayne State University Tameka Roberson
    Christine Abadir
    Melissa Davis
Special thanks to Brett Kessler at Washington University for his assistance in the development of the Phonological, Morphological and Part of Speech Codes, Curt Burgess for providing the word frequency estimates from the HAL database, and finally, Stephen Isard and Susan Fitt for allowing access to the UNISYN Lexicon.

Citation:

Please use the following citation for this website:

Balota, D.A., Yap, M.J., Cortese, M.J., Hutchison, K.A., Kessler, B., Loftis, B., Neely, J.H., Nelson, D.L., Simpson, G.B., & Treiman, R. (2007). The English Lexicon Project. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 445-459.