In the present study we examined electrophysiological and behavioral correlates of
ambiguous word processing. In a lexical decision task, participants were presented with …

The pioneering research of GK Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other
word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws. The most popular is Zipf's law …

Lexical ambiguity is pervasive among Chinese characters as many of them are
polysemantic, with one orthographic form carrying unrelated meanings, related meanings, or …

It is not clear whether multiple unrelated meanings inhibit or facilitate word recognition.
Some studies have found a disadvantage for words having multiple meanings with respect …

Different systems are used to facilitate communication for people with speech problems.
Among these, pictographic systems offer an extraordinary solution for many people with …

Lexical ambiguity--where a single wordform takes on distinct, context-dependent meanings--
serves as a useful tool to compare across different language models'(LMs') ability to form …

Semantically ambiguous and emotional words occur frequently in language, and the
different meanings of ambiguous words can sometimes have different emotional loads. For …

The present study explores the issue of why ambiguous words are recognized faster than
unambiguous ones during word recognition. To this end we contrasted two different …

Lexical ambiguity takes place when a word has more than one meaning. This phenomenon
could therefore lead to multiple difficulties in the processing of information; however …

Existen muchos motivos para escribir un libro de ciencia, pero el único que nos debe
interesar como lectores es la honesta necesidad de comprender y de poder explicar cómo …