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The Effects of Meaning Dominance and Meaning Relatedness on Ambiguity Resolution : = Idioms and Ambiguous Words.

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Title/Author:	The Effects of Meaning Dominance and Meaning Relatedness on Ambiguity Resolution :/
Reminder of title:	Idioms and Ambiguous Words.
Author:	Milburn, Evelyn Arko.
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Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: B.
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The Effects of Meaning Dominance and Meaning Relatedness on Ambiguity Resolution : = Idioms and Ambiguous Words.
Milburn, Evelyn Arko.

The Effects of Meaning Dominance and Meaning Relatedness on Ambiguity Resolution :Idioms and Ambiguous Words. - 1 online resource (155 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Figurative language is language in which combining the meanings of the individual words in an expression leads to a different meaning than the speaker intends (Glucksberg, 1991), resulting in potential ambiguity between meanings. In this dissertation, we tested the predictions of a sentence processing framework in which literal and figurative language are not truly distinct. To do this, we examined the effects of two constructs---meaning dominance and meaning relatedness---on comprehension of idioms and ambiguous words. Processing similarities between these two types of ambiguous unit would indicate that ambiguities are resolved using the same processes during language comprehension, and therefore that literal and figurative language are broadly similar rather than being categorically distinct. In two parallel sub-experiments, Experiment 1 compared facilitation for dominant and subordinate meanings of ambiguous units in a primed lexical decision task. For ambiguous words, participants showed greater facilitation when one meaning was strongly dominant. For idioms, participants showed greater facilitation for idioms compared to control phrases, and lowest accuracy when responding to literal target words following highly figuratively-dominant idioms. Experiment 2 used eyetracking during reading to examine how biasing context affected idiom meaning activation, as well as how idiom meanings were integrated into a larger text. Participants read the idioms slowest when both figurative dominance and meaning relatedness were high, and fastest when meaning relatedness was high and figurative dominance was low, replicating results for ambiguous word reading found by Foraker and Murphy (2012). This is suggestive evidence for a language comprehension system that resolves ambiguities similarly regardless of grain size or literality. We also found facilitative effects of meaning relatedness in idiom reading parallel to the polysemy advantage in ambiguous word research, providing evidence that meaning relatedness is universal to many types of ambiguity resolution. The present study provides preliminary evidence that idioms and ambiguous words are treated similarly during ambiguity resolution. These results have implications for our understanding of idiom comprehension, and suggest valuable new avenues for future research.

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