Lexical priming in humorous discourse

Quantifying Humorous Lexical Incongruity

Extemporaneous Blending: Conceptual Integration in Humorous Discourse from Talk Radio

An “Off the Leash” cartoon by W. B. Park depicts a dozen or so pigs feeding at a trough. One pig, however, has his head raised, as if addressing the approaching farmer. The pig’s words are apparently expressed in the cartoon’s caption, “Garcon!” The cartoon thus compares the farmer in the cartoon to a waiter in a French restaurant, and the viewer is left to speculate about the nature of the cor...

Reading words in discourse: the modulation of lexical priming effects by message-level context.

Repetition and semantic-associative priming effects have been demonstrated for words in nonstructured contexts (i.e., word pairs or lists of words) in numerous behavioral and electrophysiological studies. The processing of a word has thus been shown to benefit from the prior presentation of an identical or associated word in the absence of a constraining context. An examination of such priming ...

Running Head: PRIMING IN LEXICAL ACCESS The Role of Priming in Lexical Access and Speech Production

Human language function is inextricably linked to memory in that the comprehension and production of language requires access to linguistic structures stored at various levels of abstraction and complexity. The act of producing even a single word requires (at a minimum) the retrieval of its semantic, lexical, syntactic, and phonological/orthographic properties before articulation can occur. As ...

Individual Differences in Lexical Priming 4.1. Lexical Priming in Healthy and Cognitively Impaired Older Adults 4.2. Lexical Priming and Conceptual Organization in Childhood