PROCESSING AMBIGUOUS WORDS IN CONTEXT

Tabossi (1988) described data suggesting that both dominance and context may have an effect on access to lexical ambiguity. Experiments 1 and 2 here extend those results, showing that the selective findings observed in that study are not due to an exhaustive access followed by a fast selection, but reflect genuine context effects. In the light of these findings, a time-course hypothesis of lexical access is introduced, and its explanatory capacity relative to current theories is discussed. © 1993 Academic Press, Inc.