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The cost of learning new meanings for familiar words ...
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Research has shown that adults are highly skilled at learning new words and meanings. Here, we examined whether learning new meanings for familiar words affects the processing of their existing meanings. In Experiments 1 and 2, adult participants learnt new, fictitious meanings for previously unambiguous words (e.g., “sip” denoting a small amount of computer data) through four 30-minute training sessions completed over four consecutive days. We tested participants’ comprehension of existing meanings before and after training using a semantic relatedness decision task in which the probe word was related to the existing but not the new meaning of the trained word (e.g., “sip-juice”). Following the training, responses were slower to the trained, but not to the untrained, words, indicating competition between newly-acquired and well-established meanings. Furthermore, consistent with studies of semantic ambiguity, the effect was smaller for meanings that were semantically related to existing meanings than for the ...
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Cognitive Psychology; First and Second Language Acquisition; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics; Psychology; Semantics and Pragmatics; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/7ydkw https://psyarxiv.com/7ydkw/
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Representational deficit or processing effect? An electrophysiological study of noun-noun compound processing by very advanced L2 speakers of English
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Electrophysiological correlates of noun-noun compound processing by non-native speakers of English ...
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Electrophysiological correlates of noun-noun compound processing by non-native speakers of English
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On the resolution of lexical ambiguity : unilateral brain damage effects on the processing of homonymy and polysemy
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