Models or strategies? on the perception of ambiguous words

Models of lexical ambiguity resolution differ mainly with respect to the role played by context in lexical access. In my paper I focus on two opposing views: those of autonomous access models (non-context-oriented) and selective access models (context-oriented). I analyse two types of situations of: a. the activation of a wrong meaning of an ambiguous word unpredictable from both models and b. humour based on puns. Proceeding from my analysis I propose to include (those leading to errors) and consider existing models as strategies, consequently, treating unsuccessful lexical ambiguity resolution as the influence factors or as a selection of the wrong strategy.