The role of emotionality in the acquisition of new concrete and abstract words

A processing advantage for emotional words relative to neutral words has been widely demonstrated in the monolingual domain (e.g., Kuperman, Estes, Brysbaert, & Warriner, 2014). It is also well known that, in bilingual speakers who have a certain degree of proficiency in their second language, t...

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Main Authors: Pilar eFerré, David eVentura, Montserrat eComesaña, Isabel eFraga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00976/full