Lexical ambiguity studies show that people access ambiguous words based on

a. the identification of a single meaning for that word.
b. the meaning dominance of each definition of the word.
c. the word that comes immediately before and the word that comes immediately after the ambiguous word in the sentence.
d. a bottom-up progression of meaning comprehension.


b

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