Concreteness, context availability, and imageability ratings and word associations for abstract, concrete, and emotion words

By J. Altarriba, L. M. Bauer, Claudia Benvenuto. 1999

Subfields: Computational Linguistics & Semantics, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Towards fairer datasets: filtering and balancing the distribution of the people subtree in the ImageNet hierarchy (2019, background): “imagery) of words [5, 9, 17, 32, 57, 58], which is defined as “the easewithwhich theword arouses imagery” [58].”
Memory for emotional words in bilinguals: Do words have the same emotional intensity in the first and in the second language? (2010, background): “Emotionally charged words have several properties that have led to some authors to suggest that they may be a special class of words (Altarriba & Bauer, 2004 ; Altarriba, Bauer, & Benvenuto, 1999 ; Pavlenko, 2008 ).”
The automatic access of emotion: Emotional Stroop effects in Spanish–English bilingual speakers (2007, result): “In fact, when these ratings were compared to data collected on English emotion words (Altarriba, Bauer, & Benvenuto, 1999 ), it was apparent that Spanish emotion words carry with them a higher level of context availability as compared to their English counterparts.”
Emotion and emotion-laden words in the bilingual lexicon (2008, background): “Altarriba et al. (1999) showed that emotion words were rated by monolingual English-speakers as less concrete and lower in context availability than both abstract and concrete words.”
Semantic diversity: A measure of semantic ambiguity based on variability in the contextual usage of words (2012, methodology): “Method: We analysed the properties of 325 words for which concreteness, imageability and context availability ratings were collected by Altarriba et al. (1999).”
The representation of abstract words: why emotion matters. (2011, background): “WordNet-Affect: an affective extension of WordNet.”
Does cariño equal “liking”? (2003, methodology): “While concrete words are rated 313 The International Journal of Bilingualism Does cariño equal “liking”? more highly on this scale (similar to Altarriba et al., 1999), there was no significant difference between the mean ratings reported for emotion and abstract words on this dimension, t (20) =…”
Varieties of abstract concepts and their multiple dimensions (2019, background): “Some of the clusters correspond to ACs already identified in the current literature, such as emotional concepts (Altarriba et al., 1999; Altarriba & Bauer, 2004; Barca et al., 2017; Ponari et al., 2018).”
Physiological reactivity to emotional phrases in Mandarin—English bilinguals (2011, background): “It is well known that ease of retrieval of a word or phrase and retrieval of autobiographical memories varies for bilingual speakers (e.g., Altarriba & Bauer, 2004; Altarriba et al., 1999).”