Semantic satiation and lexical ambiguity resolution
Semantic satiation and lexical ambiguity resolution
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DOI:
10.2307/1423607
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发表时间:
2001-12-01
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
Black, SR
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作者:
Black, SR
This study examines the effects of semantic satiation on lexical ambiguity resolution. On a given trial, participants were presented with a word triad. The first word (e.g., HEART) was presented on average 2.5, 12.5, or 22.5 times, and then participants received 2 new words for relatedncssjudgmellts. The first of the two new words was always a homograph (e.g., "ORGAN") and the other word was a related or unrelated pairmate (e.g., "KIDNEY'). In Experiment 1, when blocks of trials were intermixed with concordant (e.g., "HEART-ORGAN-KIDNEY'), discordant (e.g., "PIANO-ORGAN-KIDNEY'), and neutral (e.g., "CEILING-ORGAN-KIDNEY') trials, participants did not produce evidence of semantic satiation. In a second experiment in which only concordant and neutral trials were presented, however, participants did produce evidence of semantic satiation in the concordant condition. Taken together, Experiments I and 2 indicate that semantic satiation of the context-appropriate meaning of a homograph may impede ambiguity resolution.