Query Details
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Request for material about deictic localization / local cases
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| Author: | Matthias Deja | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Psycholinguistics
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| Query: |
Dear LINGUISTs,
I've done a pretty thorough reveiw of the psycholinguistic literature on lexical ambiguity, but I'm left with a question that doesn't seem to be addressed directly in any of the empirical studies I've read. It's this: if an ambiguous word has a strongly dominant sense, is that sense most likely to be the one actually selected in neutral contexts? Of course the intuitive answer seems obivously to be ''yes,'' but I haven't found any formal studies affirming this, as most studies do not explicitly relate dominance bias or strength of activation with the processes of sense selection. Two more general questions: have the findings of Tabossi (refs. below) pretty much spelled an end to a purely modularist view of lexial processing? And finally, to what extent are connectionist explanations of lexical processing like Kawamoto's (see below) gaining credence among psycholinguists? - ---------------- References - ---------------- Kawamoto, Alan (1993). `Nonlinear Dynamics in the Resolution of Lexical Ambiguity: A Parallel Distributed Processing Account,' Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 474-516. Tabossi, P. 1988. `Accessing lexical ambiguity in different types of sentential context.' Journal of Memory and Language 27, 324-340. Tabossi, P., Colombo, L., & Job, R. 1987. `Accessing lexical ambiguity: Effects of context and dominance.' Psychological Research 49, 161-167. Tabossi, P., & Zardon, F. 1993. `Processing ambiguous words in context.' Journal of Memory and Language 32, 359-372. - ----------------- Thanks, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- David Wharton Department of Classical Studies 237 McIver Building The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27412-5001 email: whartond@uncg.edu tel. (910)334-5214 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |
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| LL Issue: | 8.981 | |
| Date posted: | 02-Jul-1997 | |
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