Multiple meanings are not necessarily a disadvantage in semantic processing: evidence from homophone effects in semantic categorisation.

The ambiguity disadvantage (slower processing of ambiguous words relative to unambiguous words) has been taken as evidence for a distributed semantic representational system like that embodied in parallel distributed processing (PDP) models. In the present study, we investigated whether semantic amb...

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Publicado en:Language & Cognitive Processes Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 453 - 468
Autores principales: Siakaluk P, Pexman PM, Sears CR, Owen WJ
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Psychology Press (UK) Apr2007
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