Autor según el artículo: Ferré P., Anglada-Tort M., Guasch M.

Departamento: Psicologia

Autor/es de la URV: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Guasch Moix, Marc

Palabras clave: Lexical decision Emotional words Concreteness Bilingualism Affective decision

Resumen: The present study investigates whether the emotional content of words has the same effect in the different languages of bilinguals by testing the effects of word concreteness, the type of task used, and language status. Highly proficient bilinguals of Catalan and Spanish who learned Catalan and Spanish in early childhood in a bilingual immersion context, and who still live in such a context, performed an affective decision task (Experiment 1) and a lexical decision task (Experiment 2) in both Catalan and Spanish. A different set of Catalan¿Spanish bilinguals, who were proficient in English and who learned English after early childhood in an instructional setting, performed a lexical decision task in both Spanish and English (Experiment 3). In both tasks administered throughout the experiments, the experimental stimuli were concrete and abstract words that varied in their emotional connotation (i.e. positive, negative and neutral words) and were presented in the two languages involved. In the affective decision task, participants decided if the words had emotional content or not, and in the lexical decision task they decided if the strings of letters were real words or not. The three experiments also included an unexpected free recall task. Results showed that the emotional content of words affected bilinguals¿ performance in all three tasks. In particular, there was a disadvantage in processing for negative words in both the affective and lexical decision tasks, and an advantage for positive words in the lexical decision and free recall tasks. Importantly, language only interacted with the other variables in Experiment 3, suggesting that language status is a relevant factor in determining the extent to which emotional processing has the same characteristics in the two languages.

Áreas temáticas: Pedagogical & educational research Linguistics and language Linguistics Language and linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Education & educational research Education Educació Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Applied linguistics

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 02676583

Direcció de correo del autor: marc.guasch@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-6898-120X 0000-0002-3192-0040

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-22

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0267658317744008

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Second Language Research. 34 (3): 371-394

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Ferré P., Anglada-Tort M., Guasch M. (2018). Processing of emotional words in bilinguals: Testing the effects of word concreteness, task type and language status. Second Language Research, 34(3), 371-394. DOI: 10.1177/0267658317744008

DOI del artículo: 10.1177/0267658317744008

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2018

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications