Autor según el artículo: Haro J., Ferré P.

Departamento: Psicologia

Autor/es de la URV: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar / Haro Rodriguez, Juan

Palabras clave: Word recognition Semantic ambiguity Multiple meanings Ambiguity disadvantage Ambiguity advantage semantic ambiguity multiple meanings ambiguity disadvantage ambiguity advantage

Resumen: It is not clear whether multiple unrelated meanings inhibit or facilitate word recognition. Some studies have found a disadvantage for words having multiple meanings with respect to unambiguous words in lexical decision tasks (LDT), whereas several others have shown a facilitation for such words. In the present study, we argue that these inconsistent findings may be due to the approach employed to select ambiguous words across studies. To address this issue, we conducted three LDT experiments in which we varied the measure used to classify ambiguous and unambiguous words. The results suggest that multiple unrelated meanings facilitate word recognition. In addition, we observed that the approach employed to select ambiguous words may affect the pattern of experimental results. This evidence has relevant implications for theoretical accounts of ambiguous words processing and representation.

Áreas temáticas: Psychology, experimental Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psicología Linguistics and language Linguistics Language and linguistics Language & linguistics General psychology Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Experimental and cognitive psychology Educação física Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Applied linguistics

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 00906905

Direcció de correo del autor: juan.haro@urv.cat mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-3456-4731 0000-0002-3192-0040

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-18

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10936-017-9554-3

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Journal Of Psycholinguistic Research. 47 (3): 679-698

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Haro J., Ferré P. (2018). Semantic ambiguity: Do multiple meanings inhibit or facilitate word recognition?. Journal Of Psycholinguistic Research, 47(3), 679-698. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-017-9554-3

DOI del artículo: 10.1007/s10936-017-9554-3

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2018

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications