Learning about the meanings of ambiguous words: evidence from a word-meaning priming paradigm with short narratives
Fluent language comprehension requires people to rapidly activate and integrate context-appropriate word meanings. This process is challenging for meanings of ambiguous words that are comparatively lower in frequency (e.g., the “bird” meaning of “crane”). Priming experiments have shown that recent e...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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PeerJ
2022
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