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Stites, Mallory C.; Federmeier, Kara D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
We used eye tracking to investigate the downstream processing consequences of encountering noun/verb (NV) homographs (i.e., park) in semantically neutral but syntactically constraining contexts. Target words were followed by a prepositional phrase containing a noun that was plausible for only 1 meaning of the homograph. Replicating previous work,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Nouns, Verbs, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Stites, Mallory C.; Federmeier, Kara D.; Stine-Morrow, Elizabeth A. L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Eye tracking was used to investigate how younger and older (60 or more years) adults use syntactic and semantic information to disambiguate noun/verb (NV) homographs (e.g., "park"). In event-related potential (ERP) work using the same materials, Lee and Federmeier (2009, 2011) found that young adults elicited a sustained frontal…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Lexicology, Older Adults, Generational Differences