Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the time-course of meaning activation of different types of ambiguous words. Unbalanced homonymous ("pen"), balanced homonymous ("panel"), metaphorically polysemous ("lip"), and metonymically polysemous words ("rabbit") were used in a visual single-word priming delayed lexical decision task. The theoretical distinction between homonymy an...

there are several suffixes in creating diminutive words with endearing meanings in the russian language. structures and their meaning variations, make it difficult for iranian pupils to comprehend its concepts which leads to a multitude of errors in translating and instructing this important issue. many foreign and russian researchers and linguists have studied and gone through diminutive words...

In the automatic translation of complicated patent sentences, one of the issues to improve translation quality is to translate verbs in the source language with various meanings to corresponding different words in the target language correctly. This paper proposes the disambiguation method using the word grouping. Verbs with various meanings usually co-occur with their corresponding nouns, and ...

Gernsbacher (1984) found that number of word meanings (polysemy) did not influence lexical decision time when it was operationalized as number of dictionary definitions. This finding supports her contention that subjects do not store all possible dictionary meanings for words in memory. The present experiments extended Gernsbacher's research by determining whether more psychologically valid mea...