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Rutvik H. Desai

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Open access Sep 2026

Knowing and feeling: The role of semantic valence in emotional prosody perception for L2 Chinese learners

In Mandarin Chinese, the same acoustic feature, pitch, conveys both semantic valence and emotional prosody. The effects of semantic valence on bilingual emotional prosody perception are mixed, with some studies reporting semantic facilitation and others showing interference. To clarify this, we extend the conceptual...

Cheng Xiao, Jiang Liu, S. Shinkareva et al. · 1 citation
Open access Sep 2026

Brain Mechanisms of Lexicality in Bilingual Emotion Processing

Understanding how native speakers and second language (L2) learners process language differently is fundamental to theories of language acquisition, comprehension, and use. A central debate in this literature concerns the inconsistent findings in emotional prosody processing between native speakers and L2 learners, par...

Cheng Xiao, Jiang Liu, Yu-Qi Zhang et al. · 0 citations

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