Chapter 13

Sentential Context and Lexical Access

Patrizia Tabossi,     Dipartmento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna, Italy

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In the current literature on lexical access, methodological arguments are usually put forward to explain contradictory results. These arguments vary depending on whether they are proposed to discount evidence which appears to be in favor of the non-autonomous model of lexical activation or vice versa. The selective effects observed in several studies are likely to reflect post-access, rather than immediate access phenomena. When the data supports the context insensitive model, the results themselves indicate that post-access phenomena have not occurred. Experimental procedures for the investigation ...

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