A cross-sectional study examined the effect of meaning frequency, referred to as “dominance” in the semantic priming paradigm, where ambiguous words (primes) were processed in isolation. Participants made lexical decisions to target words that were associates of the more frequent (dominant) or less frequent (subordinate) meaning of a homograph prime. Participants were selected from 5th grade of...

what is the true nature of meaning? what is its status? what are differences between meaning, concept, referent and fact? is meaning mental or extra-mental or neither? these are fundamental questions on the nature and ontology of meaning.meaning is identified with concept by some, confused with referent by others. some scholars have not distinguished meaning from referent and fact. still anothe...