Exhaustive semantic activation for reading ambiguous verbs in Chinese sentences

Lingua Sinica

Table 1 Comparisons across studies adopting the cross-modal lexical priming paradigm for lexical ambiguity resolution in Mandarin Chinese

Study	Target timing relative to the prime	Type of ambiguity	Word length (morphological complexity)	Syntactic category	Exemplar stimuli	Contextual effect
Ahrens (1998)	Onset	Homograph	Di-morphemic	Nouns	機關 ji1guan1	–
					‘institution’
					‘trap’
Ahrens (2001)	Onset	Homograph	Di-morphemic	Verbs	背書 bei4shu1	–
					‘memorize’
					‘guarantee’
Shu et al. (2000) Exp. 2	150 ms before offset	Homophone	Di-morphemic	Verbs	發言 fa1yan2 ‘to speak’	+
Shu et al. (2000) Exp. 2	Offset	Homophone	Di-morphemic	Verbs	發炎 fa1yan2 ‘to be infected with inflammation’	+
Wu and Shu (2002)	Onset	Homograph	Monomorphemic	Multiple syntactic categories	花 hua1	+
	Before offset				‘to spend’ (verb)	+
	Offset				‘colorful’ (adjective)	+
Zhou et al. (2003) Exp. 2	150 ms before offset	Homophone	Di-morphemic	Nouns	保健 bao3jian4 ‘hygiene’	+
Zhou et al. (2003) Exp. 2	50 ms after offset	Homophone	Di-morphemic	Nouns	宝剑 bao3jian4 ‘sword’	+