Lexical Access in the Processing of Word Boundary Ambiguity
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Maciuszek, Józef
Abstract / Description
Language ambiguity results from, among other things, the vagueness of the syntactic structure of phrases and whole sentences. Numerous types of syntactic ambiguity are associated with the placement of the phrase boundary. A special case of the segmentation problem is the phenomenon of word boundary ambiguities; in spoken natural language words coalesce, making it possible to interpret them in different ways (e.g., a name vs. an aim). The purpose of the study was to verify whether the two meanings of words with boundary ambiguities are activated, or whether it is a case of semantic context priming. The study was carried out using the cross-modality semantic priming paradigm. Sentences containing phrases with word boundary ambiguities were presented in an auditory manner to the participants. Immediately after, they performed a visual lexical decision task. Results indicate that both meanings of the ambiguity are automatically activated — independently of the semantic context. When discussing the results I refer to the autonomous and interactive models of parsing, and show other possible areas of research concerning word boundary ambiguities.
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word boundary ambiguity segmentation syntactic ambiguity lexical decisionPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2018-12-28
Journal title
Social Psychological Bulletin
Volume
13
Issue
4
Article number
Article e28690
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PsychOpen GOLD
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peerReviewed
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Maciuszek, J. (2018). Lexical access in the processing of word boundary ambiguity. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13(4), Article e28690. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v13i4.28690
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Maciuszek, Józef
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Date of first publication2018-12-28
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Abstract / DescriptionLanguage ambiguity results from, among other things, the vagueness of the syntactic structure of phrases and whole sentences. Numerous types of syntactic ambiguity are associated with the placement of the phrase boundary. A special case of the segmentation problem is the phenomenon of word boundary ambiguities; in spoken natural language words coalesce, making it possible to interpret them in different ways (e.g., a name vs. an aim). The purpose of the study was to verify whether the two meanings of words with boundary ambiguities are activated, or whether it is a case of semantic context priming. The study was carried out using the cross-modality semantic priming paradigm. Sentences containing phrases with word boundary ambiguities were presented in an auditory manner to the participants. Immediately after, they performed a visual lexical decision task. Results indicate that both meanings of the ambiguity are automatically activated — independently of the semantic context. When discussing the results I refer to the autonomous and interactive models of parsing, and show other possible areas of research concerning word boundary ambiguities.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationMaciuszek, J. (2018). Lexical access in the processing of word boundary ambiguity. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13(4), Article e28690. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v13i4.28690en_US
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ISSN2569-653X
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/5806
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6410
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v13i4.28690
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Is related to10.23668/psycharchives.2345
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Keyword(s)word boundary ambiguityen_US
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Keyword(s)segmentationen_US
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Keyword(s)syntactic ambiguityen_US
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Keyword(s)lexical decisionen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleLexical Access in the Processing of Word Boundary Ambiguityen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Article numberArticle e28690
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Issue4
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Journal titleSocial Psychological Bulletin
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Volume13
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