Salience and Context Effects: Two Are Better Than One.
This study provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that language comprehension involves 2 separate mechanisms that run in parallel: a linguistic mechanism and a contextual mechanism. The linguistic mechanism (e.g., lexical access) is modular and stimulus driven; it is a bottom-up, perceptual mec...
| Publicado en: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 16; no. 3/4; pp. 173 - 193 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2001
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