Emotional Information Processing by the Bilinguals under Cross- Channels

Based on the cross-channel priming paradigm, this paper investigates the influence of phonetic emotional words on emotional face classification in two language environments (L1: Chinese, L2: English). With phonetic emotional words as priming target, the results show that: (1) emotional face classification in Chinese is faster than that of in English. and the accuracy rate of emotional face classification in Chinese is higher than that of in English. (2) participants' classification of positive emotional face is significantly faster than that of negative emotional face. (3) in both Ll and L2, participants' responses are significantly faster when the valence of positive phonetic emotional words is consistent with emotional faces, while their responses are relatively slower when the valence of negative phonetic emotional words is in accord with emotional faces.