Using puns to study contextual influences on lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from eye movements

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 875-881

  Sheridan, Heather ^a   Reingold, Eyal M ^a   Daneman, Meredyth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; READING;

COMPREHENSION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 74849115726     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.5.875     Document Type: Article

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