{"pk":31985,"title":"Lexical Ambiguity and Context Effects in Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence from Chinese","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Chinese is a language that is extensively ambiguous on a lexical-morphemic level. In this study, we examined the effects of prior context, frequency, and density of a homophone on spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones in a cross-modal experiment. Results indicate that prior context affects the access of the appropriate meaning from early on, and that context interacts with frequency of the individual meanings of a homophone. These results are consistent with the context-dependency hypothesis which argues that ambiguous meanings of a word may be selectively accessed at an early stage of recognition according to sentential context. However, the results do not support a pre-selection process in which the contextually appropriate meaning can be activated prior to the perception of the relevant acoustic signal.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mg9k0qr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ping","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, University of Richmond","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Yip","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1996-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31985/galley/23050/download/"}]}