Zhang Juan, Teo Timothy, Wu Chenggang
Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macau.
Lang Speech. 2019 Dec;62(4):641-651. doi: 10.1177/0023830918807509. Epub 2018 Oct 24.
Emotion words modulate conflict processing, even at an early stage (i.e., N200). However, the previous studies implicitly mixed emotion-label words and emotion-laden words together and mostly concentrated on first language (L1) rather than on second language (L2). The current study aimed to investigate whether L2 negative emotion-label words, negative emotion-laden words, and neutral words would affect conflict processing in a flanker task by using event-related potential (ERP) measurements. Twenty Chinese-English bilinguals completed a modified flanker task to decide the color of the target words. The results revealed that only L2 negative emotion-label words elicited larger left frontal N200 in the incongruent condition than in the congruent condition. No significant difference between the two conditions was observed for L2 negative emotion-laden words or neutral words. This research demonstrated that L2 emotion words could also modulate early conflict processing, at least for L2 negative emotion-label words.
情绪词汇会调节冲突处理，即使在早期阶段（即N200）也是如此。然而，以往的研究将情绪标签词和充满情绪的词汇隐含地混在一起，并且大多集中在第一语言（L1）而非第二语言（L2）上。本研究旨在通过使用事件相关电位（ERP）测量，探究第二语言的负面情绪标签词、负面情绪词汇和中性词汇是否会在侧翼任务中影响冲突处理。20名汉英双语者完成了一项经过修改的侧翼任务，以判断目标词的颜色。结果显示，只有第二语言的负面情绪标签词在不一致条件下比在一致条件下引发更大的左额叶N200。对于第二语言的负面情绪词汇或中性词汇，两种条件之间未观察到显著差异。这项研究表明，第二语言的情绪词汇也可以调节早期冲突处理，至少对于第二语言的负面情绪标签词是如此。
