Abstract
The article describes an experimental study aimed at identifying the peculiarities of cognitive processing of Russian emotional words – diminutives as well as the influence of the bilingualism factor on this process. The purpose was solved in two stages: a survey and an RT-experiment. Each of the stages was carried out sequentially first in a group of native Russian speakers, then in Turkic-Russian bilinguals. Based on the data obtained during the first stage, we found that emotionality interacts with the psycholinguistic parameters (age of acquisition, type of evaluation, contextual implementation, subjective frequency) in the perception of words by native speakers and bilinguals. It was demonstrated by the presence of correlations between the parameters. The results of the RT-experiment showed that both groups of participants had significant differences in the cognitive processing of neutral and emotional words. Summing up the results, it can be concluded that the bilingualism type – unbalanced with the dominance of the L2 has influence on the perception and cognitive processing of emotional words.
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