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Ambiguity Advantage Revisited: Two Meanings Are Better than One when Accessing Chinese Nouns
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Lin, Chien-Jer Charles; Ahrens, Kathleen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
This paper revisits the effect of lexical ambiguity in word recognition, which has been controversial as previous research reported advantage, disadvantage, and null effects. We discuss factors that were not consistently treated in previous research (e.g., the level of lexical ambiguity investigated, parts of speech of the experimental stimuli,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Figurative Language, Word Recognition