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Working Memory and lexical ambiguity resolution in Chinese

Abstract

Two cross-modal priming experiments were conducted to examine the underlying mechanism of lexical disam-biguation process was in activational nature or in inhibitory approach. In experiment one, forty native Cantonese listeners wererecruited to participate in two tasks (1) a Chinese version reading span task (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980) to measure theirWM capacity and (2) a cross-modal priming task (Yip, 2015). In experiment two, another group of native Mandarin listenerswere recruited to participate in the same two tasks in Mandarin. The results revealed that sentence context had an early effecton the disambiguation processes for both high- and low-WM span groups and the underlying mechanism of the disambiguationprocess for the high-WM span group seemed to be in an inhibitory nature.

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