Using puns to study contextual influences on lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from eye movements |
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Authors: | Heather Sheridan Eyal M Reingold Meredyth Daneman |
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Institution: | (1) Nipissing University, 100 College Dr., North Bay, Ontario, Canada, P1B 8L7;(2) 3-102A Education N, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G5 |
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Abstract: | Participants’ eye movements were monitored while they read sentences containing biased homographs in either a single-meaning
context condition that instantiated the subordinate meaning of the homograph without ruling out the dominant meaning (e.g.,
“The man with a toothache had a crown made by the best dentist in town”) or a dual-meaning pun context condition that supported both the subordinate and dominant
meanings (e.g., “The king with a toothache had a crown made by the best dentist in town”). In both of these conditions, the homographs were followed by disambiguating material
that supported the subordinate meaning and ruled out the dominant meaning. Fixation times on the homograph were longer in
the single-meaning condition than in the dual-meaning condition, whereas the reverse pattern was demonstrated for fixation
times on the disambiguating region; these effects were observed as early as first-fixation duration. The findings strongly
support the reordered access model of lexical ambiguity resolution. |
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