Autor según el artículo: Huete-Pérez D; Haro J; Fraga I; Ferré P

Departamento: Psicologia

Autor/es de la URV: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Haro Rodriguez, Juan / Huete Pérez, Daniel

Palabras clave: Valence Sentence comprehension Semantic ambiguity Ratings Norms Multiple meanings Lexical ambiguity English Concreteness Arousal Ambiguous words Age Acquisition

Resumen: © Cambridge University Press 2019. Semantically ambiguous and emotional words occur frequently in language, and the different meanings of ambiguous words can sometimes have different emotional loads. For example, the Spanish word heroína (heroin/heroine) can refer to a drug or to a woman who performs a heroic act. Because both ambiguity and emotionality affect word processing, there is a need for normative databases that include data on the emotionality of the different meanings of such words. Thus far, no bases of this type are available in Spanish. With this in mind, the current study will present meaning-dependent affective (valence) ratings for 252 Spanish ambiguous words. The analyses performed show that (a) among ambiguous words, those words with meanings that have distinct affective valence are quite frequent, (b) ambiguous words rated as neutral in isolation can have meanings of opposite valence (i.e., negative-positive or positive-negative), and (c) the valence estimated for ambiguous words in isolation is better explained by the weighted average of the valence of their meanings by dominance. A database of this kind can be useful both for basic research (e.g., relationship between emotion and language and ambiguity processing) and for applied research (e.g., cognitive and emotional biases in emotional disorders and second language learning).

Áreas temáticas: Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Linguistics and language Linguistics Language and linguistics Language & linguistics General psychology Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Experimental and cognitive psychology Educação física Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Applied linguistics

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

ISSN: 0142-7164

Direcció de correo del autor: daniel.huete@urv.cat juan.haro@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat daniel.huete@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-8851-963X 0000-0002-3456-4731 0000-0002-3192-0040 0000-0001-8851-963X

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-19

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

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/applied-psycholinguistics/article/abs/heroina-drug-or-hero-meaningdependent-valence-norms-for-ambiguous-spanish-words/980CD71D75181AB033684458324C51BE

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Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Applied Psycholinguistics. 41 (2): 259-283

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Huete-Pérez D; Haro J; Fraga I; Ferré P (2020). HEROÍNA: Drug or hero? Meaning-dependent valence norms for ambiguous Spanish words. Applied Psycholinguistics, 41(2), 259-283. DOI: 10.1017/S014271641900050X

DOI del artículo: 10.1017/S014271641900050X

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2020

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications