I. Lexical and Object Decisions. II. Syntactic Disambiguation of Homographs

Abstract

Two sets of experiments are reported. In Part I, tests of speed of identification indicated that pictures and words can identified equally fast, but a mixture of the two increases the difficulty of responding, especially to pictures. In Part II, the speeded selection of one pronunciation of an ambiguous word was influenced by a brief priming word that indicated the syntax (noun or verb) of the target word. The effectiveness of the selective prime was reduced when it was sometimes misleading, showing that its influence was not wholly automatic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA148523

Entities

People

  • J. F. Kroll
  • M. C. Potter

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Automatic
  • Errors
  • Frequency
  • Governments
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Materials
  • Mixed Reality
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Reaction Time
  • Recognition
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Sequences

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Educational Psychology