Abstract
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. Copyright © 2008 Psychologia Society.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 196-205 |
| Journal | Psychologia |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Citation
Yip, M. C. W. (2008). Lexical and sentential priming of ambiguous words. Psychologia, 51(3), 196-205.Keywords
- Chinese homophones
- Context effects
- Lexical access
- Lexical priming