The majority of words in the English language do not correspond to a single meaning, but
rather correspond to two or more unrelated meanings (ie, are homonyms) or multiple related …

Semantic ambiguity is typically measured by summing the number of senses or dictionary
definitions that a word has. Such measures are somewhat subjective and may not …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

English-Spanish bilinguals named visually presented words aloud in each language. The
words included cognates (eg, fruit-fruta) and non-cognate translations (eg, pencil-ládpiz) …

Many studies have reported that word recognition in a second language (L2) is affected by
the native language (L1). However, little is known about the role of the specific language …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on the word recognition literature.
Word recognition research is central to notions regarding different levels/codes of analysis in …

There is considerable evidence (eg, Pexman et al.,) that semantically rich words, which are
associated with relatively more semantic information, are recognized faster across different …

The notion of feedback activation from semantics to both orthography and phonology has
recently been used to explain a number of semantic effects in visual word recognition …

It has been proposed that social experience plays an important role in the grounding of
concepts, and socialness has been proffered as a fundamental organisational principle …