Effect of Representational Distance Between Meanings on Recognition of Ambiguous Spoken Words

Previous research indicates that mental representations of word meanings are distributed along both semantic and syntactic dimensions such that nouns and verbs are relatively distinct from one another. Two experiments examined the effect of representational distance between meanings on recognition of ambiguous spoken words by comparing recognition of unambiguous words, noun

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COGSCI
• Authors: Daniel Mirman, Ted J. Strauss, James A. Dixon, James S. Magnuson
• Keywords: COGSCI 2010, Homonyms, Noun­noun Homonyms, Noun­verb Homonyms