Processing homonymy and polysemy: Effects of sentential context and time-course following unilateral brain damage

Brain and Language

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 365-382

  Klepousniotou, Ekaterini ^a,b   Baum, Shari R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain laterality; Homonymy; Lexical ambiguity; Metaphor; Metonymy; Sentential context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; AUTOMATION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PREDICTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA, WERNICKE; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METAPHOR; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS;

EID: 27844533557     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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