The Representation of Polysemy: MEG Evidence

The Representation of Polysemy: MEG Evidence

Most words in natural language are polysemous, that is, they can be used in more than one way. For example, paper can be used to refer to a substance made out of wood pulp or to a daily publication printed on that substance. Although virtually every sentence contains polysemy, there is little agreement as to how polysemy is represented in the mental lexicon. Do different uses of polysemous word...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Representation and Acquisition of Verbal Polysemy

In this paper, we focused on an appropriate definition of polysemy in temas of distributional behaviour of words in monolingual texts and proposed a dustering method which recosnkes verbal polysemies from a textual corpus. The chara~eristic of ou~ clust~ 8 algoritkm is that it explicitly introduces new entities, i.e. hFpothetical t~’bs when an entity is judged poly~mous and mmociates them with ...

The Representation of Polysemy in L1 and L2 Mental Lexicon

The Mental Representation of Polysemy across Word Classes

Experimental studies on polysemy have come to contradictory conclusions on whether words with multiple senses are stored as separate or shared mental representations. The present study examined the semantic relatedness and semantic similarity of literal and non-literal (metonymic and metaphorical) senses of three word classes: nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Two methods were used: a psycholinguis...