It matters how much you talk: On the automaticity of affective connotations of first and second language words

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 181-189

  Degner, Juliane ^a   Doycheva, Cveta ^b   Wentura, Dirk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

affective priming; automaticity; bilingualism; emotion; semantic priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955195021     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728911000095     Document Type: Article

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