The Processing of Lexical Ambiguity: Evidence from Child and Adult Greek.

IF 1.6 2区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS
Maria Kaltsa, Despina Papadopoulou
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Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of sentential context on lexical ambiguity resolution in Greek adults and typically developing children. Context and word frequency are factors that can affect lexical processing, however, the role of them has not been thoroughly examined in Greek. To this aim, we assessed sentence context effects in homonym meaning activation in monolingual speakers of Greek, children and adults, using a cross-modal priming paradigm. Additionally, all participants conducted a verbal working memory task and an inhibition task so as to examine whether the use of sentential context for lexical ambiguity resolution relates to age and/or cognitive processing capacity. The data analysis showed (a) major processing differences between adults and children due to ambiguity and sentential context, (b) children's processing times affected by cognitive skills while adults' processing unaffected, and (c) visual word recognition intact for all participants.

词汇模糊性的处理:来自儿童和成人希腊语的证据
本研究旨在考察句子语境对希腊成年人和发育正常儿童词汇歧义解决的影响。语境和词频是影响词汇加工的因素,但在希腊语中它们的作用尚未得到深入研究。为此,我们采用跨模态引物范式,评估了句子语境对单语希腊语儿童和成人同义词意义激活的影响。此外,所有受试者都进行了言语工作记忆任务和抑制任务,以研究使用句子语境解决词汇歧义是否与年龄和/或认知处理能力有关。数据分析结果表明:(a)成人和儿童在歧义和句子语境方面存在很大的处理差异;(b)儿童的处理时间受认知技能的影响,而成人的处理时间不受影响;(c)所有参与者的视觉单词识别能力都完好无损。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research publishes carefully selected papers from the several disciplines engaged in psycholinguistic research, providing a single, recognized medium for communications among linguists, psychologists, biologists, sociologists, and others. The journal covers a broad range of approaches to the study of the communicative process, including: the social and anthropological bases of communication; development of speech and language; semantics (problems in linguistic meaning); and biological foundations. Papers dealing with the psychopathology of language and cognition, and the neuropsychology of language and cognition, are also included.
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