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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...

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Published in:Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 16; no. 3/4; pp. 173 - 193
Main Authors: Peleg, Orna, Giora, Rachel, Fein, Ofer
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2001
Subjects:
Language & languages
Comprehension
Psycholinguistics
Linguistic context
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