Publisher Summary A fundamental problem in language comprehension is to obtain an
accurate characterization of lexical processing and of the influence of contextual information …

Two hypotheses concerning the nature of lexical access, the exhaustive access and the
terminating ordered search hypotheses, were examined in two separate studies using a …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on two types of ambiguity: lexical and syntactic
ambiguity. The two kinds of ambiguity can interact—for example, adopting noun vs. verb …

Current psycholinguistic theories of sentence processing vary along several dimensions. In
terms of the architecture of the system, proposals range from those entailing a highly …

The fundamental concerns of the field of cognitive psychology-understanding the nature of
the mental representation of information and the processes which operate on those …

Abstract Models of lexical ambiguity resolution posit a role for context, but this construct has
remained relatively undefined in the literature. The present study isolated two different forms …

The effects of prior semantic context upon lexical access during sentence comprehension
were examined in two experiments. In both studies, subjects comprehended auditorily …

Much of the richness of lexical representation comes from semantic and syntactic
information that becomes apparent only when one considers how lexical representation …

Research concerning structure and processing in the mental lexicon has achieved central
prominence within cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. Historically, however, much …

This introduction reviews some history of how lexical representations have come to play an
important role in sentence processing research. It discusses a number of issues related to …