A Linguistic or Pictorial Context
Does It Make a Difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11273131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vered Heruti (Beit Berl College, corresponding author), Dafna Bergerbest (School of Behavioral Sciences, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel), Rachel Giora (0000-0001-9628-9088, Tel Aviv University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 748-763 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Processes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0163853x.2019.1565277 |
| OpenAlex | W2913384724 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
In two experiments this study tested the Graded Salience Hypothesis and the Defaultness Hypothesis. It weighs the effects of linguistic versus pictorial contexts in terms of activation (or suppression) of default, salient meanings when context invites nondefault, less-salient alternatives. Using a naming task, Experiments 1 and 2 looked into the processing speed of ambiguous probe words, following a linguistic or pictorial prime, supportive of the less-salient, nondefault meaning. Prime presentation was either limited to 350 ms (Experiment 1) or self-paced (Experiment 2). Findings support the Graded Salience Hypothesis and the Defaultness Hypothesis, showing that, as predicted, default meanings were activated initially even when context, whether linguistic or pictorial, was strongly biased toward the alternative, nondefault meaning. These novel findings suggest that linguistic and pictorial contexts affect linguistic disambiguation to the same extent
Affect (linguistics · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Context effect · Linguistic analysis · Linguistic context · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Prime (order theory · Salience (neuroscience · Salient · Word (group theory · Communication · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Artificial Intelligence
On Our MindSalience, Context, and Figurative Language
Lexical ambiguity and fixation times in reading
The role of strong syllables in segmentation for lexical access.
Lexical access during sentence comprehension
The Modularity of Mind
Negation Generates Nonliteral Interpretations by Default
Defaultness Reigns
Salience and Context Effects
On the priority of salience-based interpretations
Understanding figurative and literal language
Negation in Context
When we say no we mean no
On the priority of salient meanings
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |