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  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|September 1, 1989
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Readers process ambiguous words differently based on context. Successful integration of a word

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Lexical ambiguity presents challenges in language comprehension.
  • Understanding how readers process multiple word meanings is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how readers' eye movements are affected by lexical ambiguity.
  • To determine the role of context in resolving word meaning.

Main Methods:

  • Monitoring readers' eye movements (gaze durations) while reading sentences.
  • Using lexically ambiguous words that were either biased or nonbiased.
  • Manipulating the timing and presence of disambiguating information.

Main Results:

  • Longer gaze durations were observed on nonbiased ambiguous words when disambiguation followed.

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  • Prior disambiguation reduced processing time for nonbiased words.
  • Biased ambiguous words with subordinate meanings required longer processing when context demanded the less frequent meaning.

    • Conclusions:

    • Successful integration of a word's dominant meaning halts the search for alternatives.
    • Contextual bias influences the speed of accessing word meanings.
    • Selective access to a single word meaning occurs rapidly with dominant meanings.