caa a22 4500 469053097 CHVBK 20180323132835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01068072 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01068072 Williams John Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Keynes House, 24, Trumpington Street, CB2 1QA, Cambridge, UK aut Processing polysemous words in context: Evidence for interrelated meanings [Elektronische Daten] [John Williams] Two experiments are reported which examined whether the various meanings of polysemous adjectives (e.g.,firm as insolid orfirm as instrict) are functionally independent during language comprehension. In Experiment 1 a priming technique was used, similar to that which has been used to investigate the processing of homonyms, to test whether alternative meanings of polysemous words become active even if they are irrelevant in the context. The results showed that this was only reliably the case for "central” meanings of the words (eg.,firm as insolid), for which effects were found as much as 1100 msec after prime onset. No significant priming of targets related to noncentral meanings (eg.,firm as instrict) was obtained in irrelevant contexts. This happened despite the fact that both types of target were equally primed when the prime occurred in isolation. Experiment 2 obtained similar results using a relatedness judgment task. The asymmetrical priming of central and noncentral targets in irrelevant contexts is discussed in terms of a hierarchical meaning structure relating the diverse uses of polysemous words. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/3(1992-05-01), 193-218 0090-6905 21:3<193 1992 21 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01068072 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01068072 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Williams John Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Keynes House, 24, Trumpington Street, CB2 1QA, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/3(1992-05-01), 193-218 0090-6905 21:3<193 1992 21 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer