Offline dominance and zeugmatic similarity normings of variably ambiguous words assessed against a neural language model (BERT).

ABSTRACT: For any research program examining how ambiguous words are processed in broader linguistic contexts, a first step is to establish factors relating to the frequency balance or dominance of those words' multiple meanings, as well as the similarity of those meanings to one other. Homonyms-words with divergent meanings-are one ambiguous word type commonly utilized in psycholinguistic research. In contrast, although polysemes-words with multiple related senses-are far more common in English, they have been less frequently used as tools for understanding one-to-many word-to-meaning mappings. The current paper details two norming studies of a relatively large number of ambiguous English words. In the first, offline dominance norming is detailed for 547 homonyms and polysemes via a free associatio

SUBMITTER: DeLong KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040203 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature