Cognitive Control in Processing Ambiguous Idioms: Evidence from a Self-Paced Reading Study

Autor/inn/en	Arnon, Tamar; Lavidor, Michal
Titel	Cognitive Control in Processing Ambiguous Idioms: Evidence from a Self-Paced Reading Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 52 (2023) 1, S.261-281 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-022-09861-z
Schlagwörter	Figurative Language; Language Processing; Psycholinguistics; Ambiguity (Semantics); Comparative Analysis; Hebrew; Task Analysis; Sentence Structure; Reading Processes; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverarbeitung; Psycholinguistik; Aufgabenanalyse; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Leseprozess; Korrelation
Abstract	Idioms entail a competition between bottom-up and top-down activations of literal and figurative meanings. The present study explored the involvement of cognitive control in processing Hebrew ambiguous idioms. Fifty subjects have completed a self-paced reading task and a response inhibition, stop-signal task (SST). Subjects read 26 matched pairs of almost-identical sentences, which included ambiguous idioms (e.g., "break the ice"). The ambiguity was resolved only in the third part of the sentence, which was either literal ("on the parking lot") or figurative ("with funny stories"). Figurative disambiguation parts were read significantly faster than literal ones. The means of the absolute RT difference between the literal and figurative sentences significantly correlated with the SST cognitive control measure. A comparison between three groups of cognitive control levels validated that "Good inhibitors" in the SST were also faster in processing ambiguities. The paper discusses the generality of cognitive control in linguistic processing. (As Provided).
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