The time course of contextual influences during lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from distributional analyses of fixation durations

摘要: In the lexical ambiguity literature, it is well-established that readers experience processing difficulties when they encounter biased homographs in a subordinate-instantiating prior context (i.e., subordinate bias effect). To investigate time course of this effect, present study examined distributional analyses first-fixation durations on 60 were each read twice: once and dominant-instantiating context. Ex-Gaussian fitting revealed distribution was shifted to right dominant distribution, with no significant contextual differences degree skew. addition, survival analysis technique showed influence versus manipulation as early 139 ms from start fixation. These results indicate had fast-acting majority fixation durations, which consistent reordered access model's assumption can affect stage reading.