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ambiguity disadvantage: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

slower lexical decisions for words with several unrelated meanings, attributed to competition between those meanings during word recognition.

In psycholinguistics, ambiguity disadvantage refers to slower lexical decisions for words with several unrelated meanings, attributed to competition between those meanings during word recognition. This meaning comes from Rodd (2002) in Journal of Memory and Language.[1]

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References

Rodd, J., Gaskell, G., & Marslen-Wilson, W. (2002). Making Sense of Semantic Ambiguity: Semantic Competition in Lexical Access. Journal of Memory and Language, 46(2), 245-266. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.2001.2810

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