Lexical ambiguity

Lexical ambiguity

1. Many words are ambiguous

2. The fisherman sat down by the bank. The buisnessman put some money in the bank

   • Are all meanings accessed? or just ones app to context?

3. CONTEXT helps us disambiguate

   • MODULARITY???
     • Lex amb helps test this...

4. AUTONOMOUS ACCESS MODEL

   • All meanings are accessed and then passed on to another module to analysis
     • Then context app meaning selected
       • Interaction is only post access
   • A bit like Cohort model

5. SELECTIVE ACCESS MODEL: Non-modular and interactive

   • Context can guide access of initial meaning
     • If biasing enough, only context app activated

6. Early studies were CROSS MODAL PRIMING PARADIGM: Listen sentence, see word, make decision