National Changhua University of Education Institutional Repository : Item 987654321/19166

English | 正體中文 | 简体中文 | Items with full text/Total items : 6507/11669
Visitors : 30038612 Online Users : 550

RC Version 3.2 © Powered By DSPACE, MIT. Enhanced by NTU Library IR team.

Scope Adv. Search

Login ‧ Upload ‧ Help ‧ About ‧ Administer

NCUEIR > College of Liberal Arts > Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation > Proceedings > Item 987654321/19166

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://ir.ncue.edu.tw/ir/handle/987654321/19166

Title:	Processing of Homonymous, Polysemous, and Mono-Sense Words
Authors:	Tsai, Pei-Shu;Wu, Denise H.;Hung, Daisy L.;Tzeng, Ovid J. L.
Contributors:	翻譯研究所
Date:	2007-04
Issue Date:	2014-10-27T08:22:22Z
Abstract:	Since most of the words in our language are ambiguous, how we resolve the conflicts between multiple meanings of the same word form becomes an important issue. Among the ambiguous words, linguists have differentiated homonymous words (e.g., bank) from polysemous ones (e.g., paper). However, empirical evidence for such distinction is scant. In the current study, we compared the processing of polysemous words with that of mono-sense and homonymous words at both the lexical and semantic levels in a double priming paradigm. Specifically, reaction times on the target word after related or unrelated primes were contrasted to examine whether polysemous words are represented more similar to homonymous or mono-sense words. Moreover, neurophysiological measurements were taken with the amplitude of the N400 component as an index of semantic incongruency. We observed different priming patterns between homonymous and mono-sense words only in a semantic relatedness judgment task. The results would shed light on our understanding of the mental representations of polysemy and the processing of ambiguous words as such.
Relation:	Poster presented at the 2nd RIKEN BSI and Oxford-Kobe International Symposium: Reading and Dyslexia in Different Languages
Appears in Collections:	[Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation] Proceedings

Files in This Item:

File	Size	Format
2040700816002.pdf	7Kb	Adobe PDF	384	View/Open

Loading...