When homonymous meanings are assumed to have separate representations in the human mind does this count for polysemous senses and does the processing advantage differ between homonymous and polysemous words? Since this is a very new perspective in psycholinguistics, not many results have been achieved by now. Thus, this study aims to go further and explain ‘the source of the processing advantage’ which could have been observed in previous lexical decision studies with ambiguous words.
In addition this study will focus on the diverse processing advantages for homonyms and polysemes and attempts to provide a model for the word representation of homonymous and polysemous words. Accordingly, the experiment is constituted as a lexical decision task. The used corpus was adopted from the study of Rodd et al. (2002: 263-264) which built the base for this study. This corpus was used because the present study only included 20 participants which thus only allows a predication to a limited extent. But by choosing this corpus parallels can be drawn between those two experiments and thereby a more general and meaningful statement can be provided.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 WHAT IS HOMONYMY AND POLYSEMY?
2.2 PREVIOUS STUDIES ON LEXICAL AMBIGUITY
3 METHODOLOGY
3.1 INSTRUMENTS
3.2 INFORMANTS
3.3 DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE
4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 RESULTS EVALUATION
4.2 COMPARISON AND CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF THE RESULTS
4.3 A MODEL FOR THE NATURE OF THE MENTAL LEXICON
5 CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A TABLE OF TARGETS
APPENDIX B COMPARISON IN A BAR CHART
APPENDIX C COMPARISON IN A TABLE
APPENDIX D RESPONSE TIMES COLLECTED
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- Melina Wiese (Author), 2015, The Representation of Homonymy and Polysemy in the Mental Lexicon, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/316221
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