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Altarriba, Jeanette; Canary, Tina M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
The activation of arousal components for emotion-laden words in English (e.g. kiss, death) was examined in two groups of participants: English monolinguals and Spanish-English bilinguals. In Experiment 1, emotion-laden words were rated on valence and perceived arousal. These norms were used to construct prime-target word pairs that were used in…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, English