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Brocher, Andreas, Koenig, Jean-Pierre, Mauner, Gail and Foraker, Stephani ORCID: 0000-0001-6819-484X (2018). About sharing and commitment: the retrieval of biased and balanced irregular polysemes. Lang. Cogn. Neurosci., 33 (4). S. 443 - 467. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 2327-3801

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Abstract

We examined how the degree of semantic similarity between an ambiguous word's meanings (homonyms vs. irregular polysemes) and meaning frequency (biased vs. balanced meanings) interact during lexical access and disambiguation. In Experiment 1, which was a continuous priming experiment, and with an ITI of 50 ms, we observed exhaustive access of meanings for all ambiguous words. With an ITI of 200 ms, we found a dominance effect for biased homonyms. There was no priming for biased irregular polysemes. For balanced homonyms and polysemes, we observed strong and roughly equivalent priming for target words associated with either meaning. In Experiment 2, using sentence reading, all ambiguous words elicited longer reading times in the absence of biasing context, while only biased and balanced homonyms also led to longer reading times in subsequent subordinate-biased context. Taken together, our data support a shared features model of irregular polyseme representation and retrieval.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Brocher, Andreas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Koenig, Jean-Pierre UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mauner, Gail UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Foraker, Stephani UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-6819-484X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-203349
DOI:	10.1080/23273798.2017.1381748
Journal or Publication Title:	Lang. Cogn. Neurosci.
Volume:	33
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 443 - 467
Date:	2018
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	2327-3801
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language LEXICAL AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY; SENTENCE COMPREHENSION; SPREADING ACTIVATION; MEANING DOMINANCE; HOMONYMOUS WORDS; FIXATION TIMES; MENTAL LEXICON; EYE-MOVEMENTS; ACCESS Multiple languages Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Behavioral Sciences; Linguistics; Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/20334