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Effects of prior contect on lexical access during sentence comprehension: A replication and reinterpretation

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In a phoneme monitoring task, prior biasing context eliminates the effect of lexical ambiguity, replicating and extending the results of Swinney and Hakes (1976). It is argued, however, that the conclusions drawn by Swinney and Hakes are not justified by the data and that a different model of the effects of context on lexical processing is more theoretically plausible than theirs.

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  1. Queens College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 11367, Flushing, New York

    Helen S. Cairns & Jennifer Ryan Hsu

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Cairns, H.S., Hsu, J.R. Effects of prior contect on lexical access during sentence comprehension: A replication and reinterpretation. J Psycholinguist Res 9, 319–326 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067445

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