01:830:351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Phoneme, University Of Manchester, Dumb Type
9 Feb 2018
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Some words are ambiguous to what extent are we using top-down processing to correctly access meaning. The waiter will pour the port into the glass. Doesn"t refer to port as in harbor but port as in wine. Are all the meanings of ambiguous words accessed: port and port. Only access more frequent meanings: port meaning harbor is more common than the drink. Use commonly associated target: port and pour both for a drink. Only syntactically appropriate accessed: pour (verb) versus the poor (adjective, only access verb meaning. Only contextually appropriate accessed: waiters pour drinks, so port must refer to drink (wine, especially if using a glass, kind of like phoneme restoration studies. Person wears headphone and hears following sentence: the man deposited his check at the bank during his lunch hour. Then flash semantically related word at ambiguous prime word: context appropriate dollar, context inappropriate river.
