Publications

Publication details [#31396]

Rodd, Jennifer, Gareth Gaskell and William Marslen-Wilson. 2002. Making Sense of Semantic Ambiguity: Semantic Competition in Lexical Access. Journal of Memory and Language 46 (2) : 245–266.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical ambiguity | meaning | representational structure | word recognition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0749-596X

Journal WWW

www.idealibrary.com/

Annotation

The results of three experiments suggest that, whilst semantic competition between the multiple meanings of ambiguous words retards their recognition, the rich semantic representations associated with these words facilitate their recognition.