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Memory & Cognition
|May 16, 2001
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Global context immediately impacts lexical ambiguity resolution, even without local cues. Its effect is similar when combined with local context but slightly delayed if inconsistent.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Lexical ambiguity resolution is influenced by contextual information.
  • Biased ambiguous words have a dominant and a subordinate meaning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of global and local context on resolving biased ambiguous words.
  • To determine the timing and interaction of global and local contextual effects.

Main Methods:

  • Eye movements of readers were monitored while reading paragraphs with manipulated global and local context.
  • Contextual information varied in its consistency with the subordinate meaning of biased ambiguous target words.

Main Results:

  • A subordinate bias effect was observed, where readers looked longer at ambiguous words when context supported the subordinate meaning.

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  • The magnitude of this effect was consistent regardless of whether global context, local context, or both were subordinate-biased.
  • Global context showed an immediate effect when no local information was present, no additional effect when consistent with local context, and a delayed effect when inconsistent.

    • Conclusions:

    • Global context plays a crucial role in initial lexical ambiguity resolution.
    • The interplay between global and local context influences the temporal dynamics of meaning access.