ACCESSING LEXICAL AMBIGUITIES DURING SENTENCE COMPREHENSION - EFFECTS OF FREQUENCY OF MEANING AND CONTEXTUAL BIAS
ACCESSING LEXICAL AMBIGUITIES DURING SENTENCE COMPREHENSION - EFFECTS OF FREQUENCY OF MEANING AND CONTEXTUAL BIAS
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DOI：
10.3758/bf03196957
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发表时间：
1981-01-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
SWINNEY, DA
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作者：
ONIFER, W;SWINNEY, DA
Two hypotheses concerning the nature of lexical access, the exhaustive access and the terminating ordered search hypotheses, were examined in 2 separate studies using a cross-modal lexical priming task. In this task, human subjects listened to sentences that were biased toward either the primary interpretation (a meaning occurring 75% or more of the time) or a secondary interpretation (a meaning occurring less than 25% of the time) of a lexical ambiguity that occurred in each sentence. Simultaneously, subjects made lexical decisions about visually presented words. Decisions to words related to both the primary and secondary meanings of the ambiguity were facilitated when presented immediately following occurrence of the ambiguity in the sentence. This effect held under each of the 2 biasing context conditions. When they were presented 1.5 s following occurrence of the ambiguity, only visual words related to the contextually relevant meaning of the ambiguity were facilitated. These results support the exhaustive access hypothesis. Lexical access may be an autonomous subsystem of the sentence comprehension routine in which all meanings of a word are momentarily accessed, regardless of the factors of contextual bias or bias associated with frequency of use.
