ABSTRACT A core challenge in the semantic ambiguity literature is understanding why the
number and relatedness among a word's interpretations are associated with different effects …

Some research suggests that semantic diversity (SemD), a measure of the variability of
contexts in which a word appears, plays an important role in language processing …

Les théories de la reconnaissance des mots «multimorphémiques» postulent généralement
que l'accès au mot à morphèmes multiples tout entier passe par la représentation de ses …

Ambiguous words are hard to learn, yet little is known about what causes this difficulty. The
current study aimed to investigate the relationship between the representations of new and …

This article correlates fine-grained semantic variability and change with measures of
occurrence frequency to investigate whether a word's degree of semantic change is …

Second language (L2) learners need to continually learn new L2 words as well as additional
meanings of previously learned L2 words. The present study investigated the influence of …

The Semantic Settling Dynamics model postulated that the seemingly inconsistent effects of
lexical ambiguity are, in fact, a systematic manifestation of the specific dynamics that arise as …

Lexical ambiguity takes place when a word has more than one meaning. This phenomenon
could therefore lead to multiple difficulties in the processing of information; however …

One of the established findings in the psycholinguistic literature is that semantic ambiguity
(eg,“dog/tree bark”) slows word comprehension in neutral/minimal context, though it is not …

Existen muchos motivos para escribir un libro de ciencia, pero el único que nos debe
interesar como lectores es la honesta necesidad de comprender y de poder explicar cómo …