This study investigates the representations and processing of abstract and concrete words in the semantic system of L1 Polish-L2 English speakers. It is a conceptual replication and extension of Ferré et al.’s (2015) [1] study testing the Different Representational Frameworks Hypotehsis.
Analysis is currently underway of the data collected in Summer 2019 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
[1] Ferré, P., Guasch, M., García-Chico, T., & Sánchez-Casas, R. (2015). Are there qualitative differences in the representation of abstract and concrete words? Within-language and cross-language evidence from the semantic priming paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(12), 2402-2418. DOI
This project was funded by a Summer Research Fellowship as part of an NSF-PIRE (Partnerships for International Research and Education) grant awarded to the Center for Language Science at Penn State
Collaborators: Zofia Wodniecka (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Carrie Jackson (Penn State)