The majority of words in the English language do not correspond to a single meaning, but
rather correspond to two or more unrelated meanings (ie, are homonyms) or multiple related …

Polysemy is the type of lexical ambiguity where a word has multiple distinct but related
interpretations. In the past decade, it has been the subject of a great many studies across …

Many studies have reported that word recognition in a second language (L2) is affected by
the native language (L1). However, little is known about the role of the specific language …

Previous lexical decision studies reported a processing advantage for words with multiple
meanings (ie, the “ambiguity advantage” effect). The present study further specifies the …

Studies of polysemy are few in number and are contradictory. Some have found differences
between polysemy and homonymy (L. Frazier & K. Rayner, 1990), and others have found …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the time-course of meaning
activation of different types of ambiguous words. Unbalanced homonymous (“pen”) …

Many word forms in natural language are polysemous, but only some of them allow for co-
predication, that is, they allow for simultaneous predications selecting for two different …

The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in
their relation to the conceptual structure. In a straightforward narrative style, the author …

Most words have multiple meanings, but there are foundationally distinct accounts for this.
Categorical theories posit that humans maintain discrete entries for distinct word meanings …

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the time-course of processing
metaphorical and literal sentences in the brain. ERPs were measured to sentence-final …