Quebec French Action-Naming Database with Video Stimuli

Most psycholinguistic research on action naming has relied on static pictures, even though actions are by nature dynamic events. To overcome this limitation, the present study introduces the first open-access video database developed for French speakers of Quebec, Canada. The corpus includes 136 short video clips depicting everyday actions. Each video was normed for five psycholinguistic variables: name agreement (NA), entropy (H-statistic), response latency, uniqueness naming point—the moment at which an action becomes unambiguously identifiable—and adjusted response latency. Data were collected from 93 native French speakers of Quebec. Most actions elicited consistent name agreement (mean NA = 80.73%), while the mean entropy value (H-statistic = .84) reflected the lexical diversity typical of Quebec French. This freely available video-based normative resource offers a dynamic, culturally adapted tool for studying verb processing and supports both clinical applications and experimental investigations in psycholinguistics.