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When Non-Commitment Makes Sense: An Experimental Approach to the Retrieval and Mental Representation of Irregular Polysemes
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Brocher, Andreas – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Because many words of a language have more than one meaning, readers regularly need to disambiguate words during sentence comprehension. Using priming, eye-tracking, and event-related brain potentials, this thesis tested whether readers differently disambiguate words with semantically related meanings like "wire" and "cone,"…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Semantics, Pragmatics, Reading Comprehension