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Direct linkArnon, Tamar; Lavidor, Michal – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Idioms entail a competition between bottom-up and top-down activations of literal and figurative meanings. The present study explored the involvement of cognitive control in processing Hebrew ambiguous idioms. Fifty subjects have completed a self-paced reading task and a response inhibition, stop-signal task (SST). Subjects read 26 matched pairs…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Ambiguity (Semantics)
Traxler, Matthew J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
An eye-movement monitoring experiment investigated readers' response to temporarily ambiguous sentences. The sentences were ambiguous because a relative clause could attach to one of two preceding nouns. Semantic information disambiguated the sentences. Working memory considerations predict an overall preference for the second of the two nouns, as…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Semantics, Nouns, Figurative Language
