To date, there are many studies on the problem of the emotional words perception by native speakers and bilinguals. In particular, a number of studies have argued that the first language (L1) is considered to be more emotional than the second (L2) or subsequent languages (Dewaele, 2004; Altarriba, 2008), but it has been proven that it`s necessary to take into account the bilingualism type and L2 age of acquisition (AoA) (Dewaele, 2006, 2008). Also, emotionality is often analyzed in relation to such categories as valence, arousal, frequency and AoA, since they can influence the emotional words perception (Zevin et al., 2002; Mendez-Bertolo et al., 2011; Kuperman et al., 2014). In our study we deal with the specific type of bilingualism — KhakassRussian and with the special group of emotional vocabulary — diminutives. This stage was a continuation of our research aimed at solving the problem of Russian emotional words perception by bilinguals (Vasilyeva, 2020). We applied the developed methodology to the new language material to identify differences in the perception of Russian words associated with the influence of bilinguals mother languages. The stimuli for the experiment were 290 Khakass words which were included into a questionnaire consisting from the 5 parameters: evaluation, emotionality, contextual implementation, frequency, AoA. The participants (21 people, average age — 47, 2) were asked to rate words on a scale from 1 to 7. Samples with average word values for each parameter were introduced into the correlation analysis which showed the following statistically significant correlations: AoA/contextual implementation (r = .312); contextual implementation/evaluation (r = .305); AoA/evaluation (r = .149); AoA/frequency (r = -.275); emotionality/frequency (r = -.187). Comparing obtained results with the data identified on the Russian material we revealed that the correlations and their rates are smaller. Intergroup analysis showed that bilinguals estimate Khakass diminutives as more emotional than the L2 words (Russian). The obtained conclusions correlate with the data available in the literature. However, the numerical indicators differ to an insignificant extent that can be also explained by the studied bilingualism type — unbalanced with L2 dominance. This is also evidenced by the similarities in other parameters and the revealed correlations. The study was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (the RF Government Grant №14.Y26.31.0014).
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Neurobiology of Speech and Language organised by the Laboratory of Behavioural Neurodynamics, Saint Petersburg State University, October, 2021. Saint Petersburg, 2021. P. 47-48
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The bilingualism influence on the perception of emotional words (Khakass-Russian bilingualism)