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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"taboo words"”.
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Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words and their significance in Rwandan culture
This study investigates Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words and their meaning in Rwandan culture to enable the youth to improve their communication and the values of Rwandan culture. It explores whether the use of Kinyarwaanda sexuality taboo words is a good way to communicate with one another or is …
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For fuck's sake: Investigating the affective norms and auditory perception of British English taboo words
Swear words are paradoxically ubiquitous and taboo. Whilst there is evidence to suggest taboo stimuli are preferentially processed, most findings relate to visually presented stimuli, despite swear words being more frequently heard than read, and arguably more threatening when presented auditorily. …
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What not to swear: how do children learn bad words?
Children begin producing taboo words as early as ages one or two years old and produce them at a steady rate until the teenage years. However, little is known about how children acquire taboo words and whether the acquisition of taboo words is similar to the acquisition of other types of words. The …
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Catching the mind's eye: the effect of internal distraction on external attention
… a stream of non-sentential, category-consistent words could affect visual attention task performance. Experiments 4, 5, and 6 assessed the impact of hearing taboo words on visual task performance. Experiment 1 opened the door to the possibility of speech processing related visual attention …
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Investigations of the cognitive and neural processes supporting memory for neutral and emotional words
… emotional import. This enhancement occurred for words with valence only (i.e., negative words that did not elicit physiological arousal) as well as for arousing ("taboo") words, but was stronger for the arousing words. In Chapter 3 a divided attention paradigm was employed to investigate the …
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Taboo lexeme conditioning and obscenities in American English
<p>Taboo Lexeme Conditioning refers to the neurological, psychological, and sociological conditioning required during lexical acquisition for a native speaker to treat or experience certain lexemes as highly taboo. Taboo words differentiate both neurologically from non-emotional or non-taboo …