El efecto polisemiaAhora lo ves otra vez

  1. Domínguez, Alberto
  2. Vega Rodríguez, Manuel de
  3. Cuetos Vega, Fernando 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Journal:
Cognitiva

ISSN: 0214-3550

Year of publication: 1997

Volume: 9

Issue: 2

Pages: 175-194

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1174/021435597760392430 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Abstract

Several papers have shown that polysemy has a facilitatory effect on word recognition. However, other papers have not confirmed this finding. For this reason, doubts exist as to whether these effects are specific for polysemy or are caused by other lexical variables related to polysemy. In this paper we ran three lexical decision experiments aimed at testing if the effects of polysemy are independent from the frequency and imageability of words. Results indicate that polysemy interacts with frequency, since effects are greatest in low frequency words and it is independent of imageability. On the other hand, these effects are especially strong when polysemy was measured by normative studies rather than obtained as the number of dictionary meanings.

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