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...
| Published in: | Language & Cognitive Processes Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 453 - 468 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Psychology Press (UK)
Apr2007
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