Background data for: Ordinal response scales: Psychometric grounding for design and analysis

This dataset contains background data and supplementary material for a methodological study on the use of ordinal response scales in linguistic research. For the literature survey reported in that study, which examines how rating scales are used in current linguistic research (4,441 papers from 16 linguistic journals, published between 2012 and 2022), it includes a tabular file listing the 406 research articles that report ordinal rating scale data. This file records annotated attributes of the studies and rating scales. Further the dataset includes summary data gathered in a review of the psychometric literature on the interpretation of quantificational expressions that are often used to build graded scales. Empirical findings are collected for five rating scale dimensions: agreement (1 study), intensity (3 studies), frequency (17 studies), probability (11 studies), and quality (3 studies). Finally, the post includes new data from 20 informants on the interpretation of the quantifiers "few", "some", "many", and "most".