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 …

Most words are ambiguous--ie, they convey distinct meanings in different contexts--and
even the meanings of unambiguous words are context-dependent. Both phenomena …

Regular polysemes are sets of ambiguous words that all share the same relationship
between their meanings, such as CHICKEN and LOBSTER both referring to an animal or its …

This study examines speakers' intuitions about novel word senses created through regular
polysemy patterns. We investigate the effect of scalar regularity and lexical figure (metaphor …

The processing of metaphors and idioms has been the subject of neuroscientific research for
several decades. However, results are often contradictory, which can be traced back to …

We studied mental representations of literal, metonymically different, and metaphorical
senses in Russian adjectives. Previous studies suggested that in polysemous words …

For any research program examining how ambiguous words are processed in broader
linguistic contexts, a first step is to establish factors relating to the frequency balance or …

The article discusses the psycholinguistic explication of the phenomenon of the Russian
language personality (RLP) on the experimentally obtained associative-verbal-network …

Words with complex semantic types such as book are characterised by a multiplicity of
interpretations that are not mutually exclusive (eg, as a physical object and/or informational …

During a conversation, we are able to switch between different registers, which affects
linguistic characteristics of the discourse. However, little is known about the influence of …