LEXICAL AND SENTENTIAL PRIMING OF AMBIGUOUS WORDS

This paper examined the priming effects of the sentential context and other lexical factors in the processing of ambiguous words. A cross-modal naming task was employed in which listeners named aloud a visual probe as fast as they could, at a pre-designated point upon hearing the sentence, which end...

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Published inPSYCHOLOGIA Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 196 - 205
Main Author YIP, Michael C. W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Psychologia Society 01.01.2008
Subjects
Chinese homophones
Context effects
lexical access
lexical priming
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Summary:This paper examined the priming effects of the sentential context and other lexical factors in the processing of ambiguous words. A cross-modal naming task was employed in which listeners named aloud a visual probe as fast as they could, at a pre-designated point upon hearing the sentence, which ended with a spoken Chinese homophone. Results from the experiment in general support the context-dependency hypothesis that selection of the appropriate meaning of an ambiguous word depends on the simultaneous interaction of both sentential and lexical information during lexical access.
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ISSN:0033-2852
1347-5916
DOI:10.2117/psysoc.2008.196