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Cairns, Helen S.; Kamerman, Joan – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Two psycholinguistic processes are examined in a phoneme monitoring experiment and a sentence completion experiment. Tests were conducted with matched materials on subjects drawn from one population. With ambiguous lexical items all meanings are retrieved, but following a decision stage only one is transferred to memory. (SC)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Language Tests, Phonemes
Mehler, Jacques; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
French sentences with a long ambiguous word just before a target phoneme led to faster reaction times than did sentences with a short unambigous word just before the target phoneme. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, French, Language Processing
Mistler-Lachman, Janet L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Based on results reported in a doctoral dissertation completed at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Investigation carried out while the author held a National Institutes of Mental Health Predoctoral Research Fellowship. (VM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Deep Structure