TY - BOOK ID - 77937433 TI - Ambiguity in psycholinguistics AU - Kess, Joseph F. AU - Hoppe, Ronald Arthur PY - 1981 SN - 1283359707 9786613359704 9027280819 9789027280817 9027225141 9789027225146 PB - Amsterdam: Benjamins, DB - UniCat KW - Psycholinguistics. KW - Language and languages. KW - Ambiguity. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Semantics KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistics KW - Language, Psychology of KW - Language and languages KW - Psychology of language KW - Speech KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Psychological aspects KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Ambiguity UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937433 AB - The authors present a comprehensive overview of past research in ambiguity in the field of psycholinguistics. Experimental results have often been equivocal in allowing a choice between the single-reading hypothesis and the multiple-reading hypothesis of processing of ambiguous sentences. This text reviews the arguments and experimental results in support of each of these views, and further investigates the contributions of context and thematic constraints in the process of ambiguity resolution. Commentary is also made on the possible hierarchical ordering of difficulty in the treatment of amb ER -