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    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Linguistics
    • Psycholinguistics

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    • Language comprehension often involves inferring meanings beyond literal interpretations.
    • New contexts can present novel word meanings, requiring integration with prior knowledge.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate whether contextual support can override or eliminate consideration of pre-existing meanings.
    • To review research on meaning truncation in various linguistic contexts.

    Main Methods:

    • Literature review across three domains: metaphorical meaning recovery, noun-noun combination understanding, and narrative assimilation.
    • Analysis of studies examining the role of context in meaning selection.

    Main Results:

    • Contextual information plays a crucial role in prioritizing and selecting appropriate meanings.
    • Evidence suggests that context can indeed lead to the truncation of less relevant prior meanings.

    Conclusions:

    • Contextual support is a powerful mechanism in language comprehension, enabling the flexible adaptation of meaning.
    • Understanding how context influences meaning processing is key to explaining language acquisition and use.