Lexical ambiguity and sentence comprehension

Previous models of the computation of word meanings in sentence context have claimed either that context causes only one meaning of an ambiguous word to be processed or that all meanings are processed regardless of context. By contrast, the ordered search model suggested here hypothesizes that acces...

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Published in:Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 1975-01, Vol.14 (3), p.265-274
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