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Latest papers
Extrapolated Persian Lexical Affect Norms (E-PLAN) from best-worst judgments of valence, arousal, dominance, and concreteness.
Behavior research methods · 2026
The principal components of meaning, revisited.
Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025 · first author
Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study.
Behavior research methods · 2024
Latest funding
- $174,000
The psychometric, behavioral, and neurological role of empirically-identified semantic components
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $25,000
Using first- and second-order lexical co-occurrence to assess temporal changes in media valence and content
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
- $138,829
A multi-disciplinary approach to understanding interactions between lexical and affective processing
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
22 publications.
Extrapolated Persian Lexical Affect Norms (E-PLAN) from best-worst judgments of valence, arousal, dominance, and concreteness.
Nemati F, Westbury C, Rostami H, Alavi F
The principal components of meaning, revisited.
Westbury C, Yang M, Anderson K
Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study.
Sulpizio S, Günther F, Badan L, Basclain B, Brysbaert M, Chan YL, Ciaccio LA, Dudschig C, Duñabeitia JA, Fasoli F, Ferrand L, Filipović Đurđević D, Guerra E, Hollis G, Job R, Jornkokgoud K, Kahraman H, Kgolo-Lotshwao N, Kinoshita S, Kos J, Lee L, Lee NH, Mackenzie IG, Manojlović M, Manouilidou C, Martinic M, Del Carmen Méndez M, Mišić K, Chiangmai NN, Nikolaev A, Oganyan M, Rusconi P, Samo G, Tse CS, Westbury C, Wongupparaj P, Yap MJ, Marelli M
Why are human animacy judgments continuous rather than categorical? A computational modeling approach.
Westbury C
The Persian Lexicon Project: minimized orthographic neighbourhood effects in a dense language.
Nemati F, Westbury C, Hollis G, Haghbin H
Is theology more of a field than a father is a king? Modelling semantic relatedness in processing literal and metaphorical statements.
Westbury C, Harati P
English Speakers' Implicit Gender Concepts Influence Their Processing of French Grammatical Gender: Evidence for Semantically Mediated Cross-Linguistic Influence.
Nicoladis E, Westbury C, Foursha-Stevenson C
Evaluating the predication model of metaphor comprehension: Using word2vec to model best/worst quality judgments of 622 novel metaphors.
Harati P, Westbury C, Kiaee M
Sound symbolism shapes the English language: The maluma/takete effect in English nouns.
Sidhu DM, Westbury C, Hollis G, Pexman PM
Prenominal adjective order is such a fat big deal because adjectives are ordered by likely need.
Westbury C
The psychometric, behavioral, and neurological role of empirically-identified semantic components
Principal investigators: Westbury, Chris
Using first- and second-order lexical co-occurrence to assess temporal changes in media valence and content
Principal investigators: Westbury, Chris
A multi-disciplinary approach to understanding interactions between lexical and affective processing
Principal investigators: Westbury, Chris
From assessment to experiment: designing experiments to bridge between aphasiology and psycholinguistics
Principal investigators: Westbury, Christopher
Quantifying semantic contributions to lexical access.
Principal investigators: Westbury, Christopher
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Lianne Lefsrud and Chris Westbury: 1 shared paper
- Chris Westbury and Elena Nicoladis: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Language Acquisition
- Chemical and Materials Engineering
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