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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Polysemous words"”.
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Context Effects in Sentence Comprehension With Schizophrenics.
The process by which the meaning of individual words is determined in the context of a sentence is an important part of sentence comprehension and more generally communication. There are numerous words in the English language with two or more different meanings (i.e., polysemous words) and in fact, …
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"""Paper Has Been My Ruin"": On the Organization of Polysemous Senses"
… & Murphy) has suggested that multiple senses of polysemous words might be represented separately. This thesis examined how these diverse senses might be organized, by using categorization research to examine the problem of polysemy. Categorization paradigms such as forced-choice sorting (in the …
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The Neural Representation of Polysemy: The Case of Dot-objects
… 1995, 2011). According to the hypothesis, words such as "book" and "lunch" are dot-objects: a class of logically polysemous words which have multiple senses that are closely bound together. As a result of the close binding, both senses can be accessed simultaneously (as in "read the book"), …
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DIE EUROPÄISCHE IDENTITÄT IN DEUTSCHEN BUNDESTAGSDEBATTEN: EINE POLITOLINGUISTISCHE ANALYSE
… very definitions of Europe and identity, both polysemous words; this complexity also explains why there has been many attempts to study this concept from different perspectives (sociology, political sciences etc., cf. Prutsch 2017). Considering the close relationship between language and …