The Effect of Wordtype in the First Stages of Foreign Language Acquisition

.......................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 5 Effects of Concreteness ............................................................................................... 6 Effects of Emotional Content........................................................................................ 9 The present study ...................................................................................................... 14 Method .......................................................................................................................... 18 Participants ................................................................................................................ 18 Materials .................................................................................................................... 18 Procedure .................................................................................................................. 21 Results .......................................................................................................................... 25 Discussions ................................................................................................................... 35 Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 43 References .................................................................................................................... 43 Appendix ....................................................................................................................... 47 Appendix I: Pseudowords .......................................................................................... 47 Appendix II: Spanish words used in each critical condition ........................................ 48 Appendix III: Meaning of the pseudowords in different files ....................................... 48