Stimulus data and experimental design for a self-paced reading study on emoji-word substitutions

Data in Brief

Lasse Brandt¹  Ivan Nenchev²  Marie de la Fuente³  Tatjana Scheffler⁴ 

[1] Corresponding author at: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germanistisches Institut, Fachnr. GB-149, 44780 Bochum;Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany;Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany;German Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany;

关键词: Emojis;    Self-paced reading;    Lexical ambiguity;    Homonymy;    Processing;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This data paper presents the experimental design and stimuli from an online self-paced reading study on the processing of emojis substituting lexically ambiguous nouns. We recorded reading times for the target ambiguous nouns and for emojis depicting either the intended target referent or a contextually inappropriate homophonous noun. Furthermore, we recorded comprehension accuracy, demographics and a self-assessment of the participants’ emoji usage frequency. The data includes all stimuli used, the raw data, the full JavaScript code for the online experiment, as well as Python and R code for the data analysis. We believe that our dataset may give important insights related to the comprehension mechanisms involved in the cognitive processing of emojis. For interpretation and discussion of the experiment, please see the original article entitled “The processing of emoji-word substitutions: A self-paced-reading study”.

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