Elizabeth Gatbonton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elizabeth Gatbonton is involved.
Articles
2011 Topological spatial representation across and within languages: IN and ON in Mandarin Chinese and English The Mental Lexicon 6:3, pp. 414–445 | Article
This paper examines the commonalities and variations between and within groups of English and Chinese (Mandarin) speakers in using terms to refer to the topological spatial concepts of containment (expressed by in and related terms in English) and support (expressed by on and related terms in… read more
2008 Feeling affect in a second language: The role of word recognition automaticity Emotion words in the monolingual and bilingual lexicon, Altarriba, Jeanette, Aneta Pavlenko and Norman Segalowitz (eds.), pp. 47–71 | Article
Anecdotal evidence from second language users and results from experimental studies indicate that affectively valent words are not always represented identically in a person’s first language (L1) and second language (L2) mental lexicons. The present study investigated whether such differences… read more