“…Until recently, a late acquired second language (L2) was considered emotionally and cognitively distant and, therefore, "disembodied" (Pavlenko, 2012). This lack of affective embodiment in emotion studies was shown to have consequences on pragmatic aspects (e.g., Costa, Foucart, Arnon, Aparici, & Apesteguia, 2014;Costa, Foucart, Hayakawa, et al, 2014, but see Costa et al, 2019). However, when it comes to lexico-semantic processing, the few studies with bilinguals showed that even a late acquired L2 is grounded in sensorimotor areas, but presenting a lower degree or a different pattern of embodiment compared to the mother tongue (L1), as highlighted in the most recent reviews (Kogan, Muñoz, Ibáñez, & García, 2020;Monaco, Jost, Gygax, & Annoni, 2019).…”