How do speakers avoid ambiguous linguistic expressions?

Cognition

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 263-284

  Ferreira, Victor S ^a   Slevc, L Robert ^a   Rogers, Erin S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Homophones; Language production; Monitoring; Referential communication

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 21544468868     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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