The acquisition of concrete, abstract, and emotion words in a second language

被引:20
作者
Altarriba, Jeanette [1 ]
Basnight-Brown, Dana M. [2 ]
机构
[1] SUNY Albany, Dept Psychol, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[2] US Int Univ, Nairobi, Kenya
关键词
abstract words; concrete words; emotion words; second language acquisition;
D O I
10.1177/1367006911429511
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
The purpose of the current work was to investigate whether wordtype moderates the learning of vocabulary words in a new language. English-speaking monolinguals were trained on a matched set of concrete (e. g., jewel), emotion (e. g., angry), and abstract (e. g., virtue) words in Spanish. Participants learned a set of Spanish words and then engaged in a Stroop color-word task where they determined the color in which the words appeared (none were related to color). They also engaged in a translation recognition task where foils included semantic associates of the newly acquired word. Results indicated that although the semantic representations of all three wordtypes were acquired, there was a gradient in the degree to which those meanings were automatically activated. The pattern of data indicated that newly learned emotion words vs. non-emotion words produced faster color naming times, longer recognition times, and higher error rates in recognition.
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页码:446 / 452
页数:7
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