The Processing of Lexical Ambiguity: Evidence from Child and Adult Greek.
Child language
Greek
Homonyms
Lexical ambiguity resolution
Sentential context
Journal
Journal of psycholinguistic research
ISSN: 1573-6555
Titre abrégé: J Psycholinguist Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0333506
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024
Historique:
accepted:
12
02
2024
medline:
22
2
2024
pubmed:
22
2
2024
entrez:
22
2
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38383830
doi: 10.1007/s10936-024-10063-y
pii: 10.1007/s10936-024-10063-y
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
16Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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