CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Origin of the Study 1.2 Significance of the Study 1.3 Research Questions 1.4 Definition of Key Terms 1.4.1 Bilinguals 1.4.2 Lexical ambiguity 1.4.3 Semantic priming 1.4.4 Ambiguity advantage 1.4.5 Relatedness of meaning 1.5 Organization of the Book
CHAPTER 2 REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF LEXICAL AMBIGUITY 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Lexical Ambiguity per se 2.2.1 Syntactic and lexical ambiguity 2.2.2 Critena for lexical ambiguity 2.2.3 Lexical ambiguity as a continuum 2.2.4 Mechanisms of meaning extension 2.3 TheoreticaI Accounts of LexicaI Ambiguity 2.3.1 Lexical ambiguity in theoreticallinguistics 2.3.2 Lexical ambiguity in psycholinguistics 2.4 Feedback Account of the Ambiguity Effect 2.4.1 Interaction between representational levels 2.4.2 Semantic relatedness and its processing implications 2.5 Summa
CHAPTER 3 LEXICAL AMBIGUITY IN THE BILINGUAL MIND 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Lexical Development in Bilinguals 3.2.1 Knowing a word 3.2.2 Constraints of post-puberty lexical development 3.2.3 Lexical developmentin a second language 3.3 Modeling the Bilingual Lexicon 3.3.1 Evidence from semantic primin 3.3.2 Bilingual representation models 3.3.3 Bilingual processing models 3.4 LexicaI Ambiguity and SLA 3.4.1 Translation ambiguity in bilingual 3.4.2 Meaning extension in L2 vocabulary learning 3.5 Summa
CHAPTER 4 SIMPLE LEXICAL DECISION TASK 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Experiment Design 4.2.1 Research questions 4.2.2 Participants 4.2.3 Materials 4.2.4 Procedures 4.3 Results and Findings 4.3.1 Analysis of the reaction time data 4.3.2 Analysis of accuracy rate data 4.4 Discussion 4.4.1 Lexical ambiguity and ambiguity effect 4.4.2 Ambiguity effect across proficiency groups 4.5 Summa
CHAPTER 5 TRANSLATION RECOGNITION TASK 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Experiment Design 5.2.1 Research questions 5.2.2 Participants 5.2.3 Materials 5.2.4 Procedures 5.3 Results and Findings 5.3.1 Analysis of the reaction time data 5.3.2 Analysis of accuracy rate data 5.4 Discussion 5.4.1 Ambiguity type and translation recognitio 5.4.2 Translation ambiguity in develo 5.5 Summa
CHAPTER 6 MEANING RELATEDNESS RATING 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Research Design 6.2.1 Purpose 6 .2 .2Participants 6.2.3 Materials 6.2.4 Procedures 6.3 Results and Findings 6.3.1 Overview of the relatedness rating results 6.3.2 Analysis of the LP group results 6.3.3 Analysis of the HP group results 6.4 Discussion 6.5 Summa
CHAPTER 7 SEMANTICALLY PRIMED LEXICAL DECISION TASK 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Experiment Design 7.2.1 Research questions 7.2.2 Participants 7.2.3 Materials 7 .2 .4 Procedures 7.3 Results and Findings 7.3.1 Results of the semantically primed lexical decision task 7.3.2 Findings of the exit questionnaire 7.4 Discussion 7.4.1 Distinctions within lexical ambiguity 7.4.2 Locus of the semantic priming effect 7.4.3 Language proficiency and inhibitory capacit 7.4.4 Vocabulary learning strategy and metaphorical awareness 7.5 Summa
CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSIONS 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Major Findings 8.3 Implications of the Present 8.3.1 Theoretical implications 8.3.2 Pedagogical implications 8.4 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Studies 8.4.1 Limitations of the present study 8.4.2 Suggestions for future studies BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDICES
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