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Peer reviewedLargy, Pierre; Fayol, Michel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Focuses on understanding the mechanisms that underlie the production of homophone confusions in writing. The article overviews five experiments demonstrating that the homophone effect can be experimentally induced in French adults. Findings are interpreted in the framework of an activation model. (45 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Error Analysis (Language), French, Language Processing
Peer reviewedNi, Weijia; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Explores the prediction of the referential theory, which maintains that the relative complexity of discourse representations plays a key role in determining the perceiver's immediate parsing preferences. Results indicate that semantic/referential principles are applied immediately in an online ambiguity resolution and preempt general world…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Analysis of Variance, College Students, Discourse Analysis
