Psycholinguistic variables as predictors of quantitative indicators of reverse associative dictionary

The paper analyses the relations between quantitative indicators of the reverse associative dictionary, the total number of occurrences of a given association (association frequency), and the number of stimuli that caused a given association (association prevalence) with three psycholinguistic variables: word length, word frequency, i.e., the number of texts in which the word occurs, and the age of word acquisition. All psycholinguistic variables significantly correlate with the indicators of the reverse associative dictionary. It is shown that each of the three psycholinguistic variables makes an independent contribution to the prediction of association frequency, with the most important predictor being word frequency, according to the results obtained in the study.