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Cognition and Emotion Volume 8, 1994 - Issue 6
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Emotionality in free recall: Language specificity in bilingual memory

Linda J. Anooshian Trinity University, Texas, USA
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Paula T. Hertel Trinity University, Texas, USA
Pages 503-514 | Received 06 Jul 1993, Published online: 07 Jan 2008
 
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Abstract

Bilingual subjects (Spanish English) who had acquired fluency in their second language after 8 years of age rated 18 emotional and 18 neutral words for ease of pronunciation, implied activity, or emotionality; half of each type was presented in Spanish and half in English. During a subsequent, unexpected test of free recall subjects recalled more emotional than neutral words, but only for words that had been presented in the native language. This finding applied across native-language groups and suggests that emotion provides a basis for language specificity in bilingual memory.

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