The effect of emotional valence on concrete and abstract words in L2 lexical processing among Chinese–English learners [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionEmotional valence influences word processing, and this effect is modulated by word concreteness, but findings remain inconsistent in L2 contexts—especially among Chinese-English learners.MethodsBased on the Embodied Cognition Theory, we ...
Ying Zhang, Zurui Zhang
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Investigating the Effects of Valence, Arousal, Concreteness, and Humor on Words Unique to Singapore English [PDF]
Journal of CognitionSingapore English is a dialect of English spoken by individuals living in Singapore, whose colloquial form (i.e., Singapore Colloquial English) contains unique lexical items not found in dominant dialects of English.
Cynthia S. Q. Siew +2 more
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Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe concreteness effect has long been associated with embodied theories of language, which propose that concrete words are easier to process than abstract ones because they more directly engage perceptual and motor simulations.
Marianna Bolognesi
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Updating the German Psycholinguistic Word Toolbox with AI-Generated Estimates of Concreteness, Valence, Arousal, Age of Acquisition, and Familiarity [PDF]
Journal of CognitionThis article presents AI-generated estimates for five characteristics of German words: concreteness, valence, arousal, age of acquisition (AoA), and word familiarity.
Javier Conde +8 more
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CONcreTEXT norms: Concreteness ratings for Italian and English words in context.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Concreteness is a fundamental dimension of word semantic representation that has attracted more and more interest to become one of the most studied variables in the psycholinguistic and cognitive neuroscience literature in the last decade.
Maria Montefinese +4 more
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Development of Abstract Word Knowledge
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The development of children’s word knowledge is an important testing ground for the embodied account of word meaning, which proposes that word meanings are grounded in sensorimotor systems.
Lorraine D. Reggin +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 In a great deal of theoretical and applied cognitive and neurophysiological research, it is essential to have more vocabularies with concreteness/abstractness ratings.
Valery Solovyev, Vladimir Ivanov
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Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023 Many datasets resulting from participant ratings for word norms and also concreteness ratios are available. However, the concreteness information of infrequent words and non-words is rare.
Mohsen Dolatabadi
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A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Recently, considerable attention has been given to the effect of the age of acquisition (AoA) on learning a second language (L2); however, the scarcity of L2 AoA ratings has limited advancements in this field.
Jue Wang, Baoguo Chen
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Concreteness/abstractness ratings for two-character Chinese words in MELD-SCH.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The concreteness-abstractness continuum is considered a primary dimension in the representation of semantic networks. Its theoretical importance and clinical significance are widely acknowledged.
Xu Xu, Jiayin Li
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