在语境中重新诠释同形异义词

When readers encounter an ambiguous homograph, they are typically able to immediately select an appropriate meaning based on the preceding context. However, in cases where there is not enough context to select the correct meaning, it is unclear how readers process the ambiguous word. In the present study, we investigated how readers select meanings of homographs when the disambiguating information is delayed. Participants read two or three sentence passages in which a homograph appeared in the first sentence and the disambiguating information was in the last. After each passage, participants r