Subject: summary of responses to psycholinguistics query

in linguist 8 . 981 , i posted the following query : > if an ambiguous word has a strongly dominant sense , > is that sense most likely to be the one actually selected in neutral > contexts ? of course the intuitive answer seems obivously to be " yes , " > but i have n't found any formal studies affirming this , as most studies > do not explicitly relate dominance bias or strength of activation with > the processes of sense selection . > two more general questions : have the findings of tabossi > pretty much spelled an end to a purely modularist view of lexial > processing ? > and finally , to what extent are connectionist explanations of lexical > processing like kawamoto 's ( see below ) gaining credence among > psycholinguists ? the sole respondent was james fidelholtz , who , although he could n't directly address my questions , pointed out a very useful compilation of sense-frequencies for common english words : michael west , _ a general service list of english words _ ( 1953 ) , longman . thanks , dave = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - david wharton department of classical studies 237 mciver building the university of north carolina at greensboro greensboro , nc 27412-5001 email : whartond @ uncg . edu tel . ( 910 ) 334-5214 = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = -
