ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

Representation of Emotional Events in Bilinguals

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Cognitive Science

  • Magda Saraiva
    William James Center for Research ISPA - Instituto Universitário
  • Margarida Garrido
    Instituto Universitário de Lisboa ISCTE-IUL, CIS

Abstract

The present work examined the affective grounding of language in European Portuguese (L1) and English (L2) bilinguals. Overall the results revealed that participants described emotional events more concretely in their native language and more abstractly in L2 suggesting that L1 is grounded to a greater extent than L2.

Bilingualism

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