Multiple Meanings Are Not Necessarily a Disadvantage in Semantic Processing: Evidence from Homophone Effects in Semantic Categorisation

Autor/inn/en	Siakaluk, Paul D.; Pexman, Penny M.; Sears, Christopher R.; Owen, William J.
Titel	Multiple Meanings Are Not Necessarily a Disadvantage in Semantic Processing: Evidence from Homophone Effects in Semantic Categorisation
Quelle	In: Language and Cognitive Processes, 22 (2007) 3, S.453-467 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0169-0965
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Figurative Language; Language Processing; Semiotics; Classification; Models; Word Recognition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Sprachverarbeitung; Semiotik; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Analogiemodell; Worterkennung
Abstract	The ambiguity disadvantage (slower processing of ambiguous words relative to unambiguous words) has been taken as evidence for a distributed semantic representational system like that embodied in parallel distributed processing (PDP) models. In the present study, we investigated whether semantic ambiguity slows meaning activation, as PDP models would predict, by examining homophone effects in semantic categorisation tasks. We observed a homophone effect in a go/no-go semantic categorisation task, but not in a yes/no semantic categorisation task. Our results suggest that previously reported ambiguity effects may have been due to the decision phase of the semantic categorisation task and not to the semantic processing phase, in which case the interpretation of the ambiguity disadvantage will need to be reconsidered. (Contains 3 tables and 1 footnote.) (Author).
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