Comprehending words in context : a reaction-time study of lexical ambiguity resolution

• Main Author: Tan, Samuel Wei Jian
• Other Authors: Randy John LaPolla
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Semantics; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Psycholinguistics; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Experimental psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69783
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Psycholinguistic research on semantic processing commonly distinguishes bottom-up lexical processes – involving the automatic retrieval of word senses stored in memory – from top-down contextual processes – involving the active imposition of situational constraints on the construal of lexical items...