Table of Contents

I Introduction.- 1. Resolving Semantic Ambiguity: An Introduction.- 2. Varieties of Ambiguity: What Are We Seeking?.- II Lexical Access and Post-Access Processing.- 3. What’s in a Context?.- 4. Dynamic Contextual Processes and Lexical Access.- 5. When Does “Soar” Become “Sore”? Some Comments on the Chapter of Simpson and Kellas.- 6. Lexical Ambiguity and Context: An Activation-Suppression Model.- 7. A Context-Sensitive Frequency-Based Theory of Meaning Achievement.- III Representation.- 8. Accessing the Bilingual Lexicon.- 9. On Knowing How Many Entries.- 10. Systematicity and Semantic Ambiguity.- 11. Some Ambiguities in the Study of Ambiguity.- IV Ambiguity in Text.- 12. On the Comprehension of Lexical Ambiguity by Young Children: Investigations into the Development of Mental Modularity.- 13. Disambiguation and Cognitive Control.- V Cognitive Science and Ambiguity: An Overview and Expansion.- 14. Computational Models of Ambiguity Resolution.- 15. Reflexions on Modularity and Connectionism.- References.- Author Index.

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