Psycholinguistic Norming of Galician Words (NORGAL)

Psycholinguistic research shows that numerous variables influence language comprehension and production. Despite the importance of norming words for neutralizing lexical confounding factors, facilitating cross-linguistic comparative research, and ensuring the replicability of psychological experiments, such lexical resources remain disproportionately scarce for minority and under-resourced languages. This dataset presents NORGAL, a comprehensive database comprising normative ratings for emotional valence, arousal, concreteness, imageability and subjective age of acquisition (AoA) of 1,585 Galician words. Highly frequent words – nouns and adjectives in particular – were extracted from Reference Corpus of Current Galician (CORGA) and normed on a 9-point Likert scale (except for AoA) by bilingual Galician-Spanish students from two University of Vigo campuses. This study also presents comparative analyses against established Spanish normative databases, ensuring strict methodological control and confirming the consistency of our stimulus ratings across studies. Finally, primary limitations associated with normative research in acquiring psycholinguistic indices in this specific context are explained, while paving the way for future avenues of application and expansion. In sum, NORGAL can serve as a valuable foundation for advancing experimental and psycholinguistic research in this language.