Exhaustive semantic activation for reading ambiguous verbs in Chinese sentences

Lingua Sinica

Table 2 Auditory primes 學 xue2, 裝 zhuang1, 喝 he1 and their visual targets

Auditory prime	Meanings	Visual target
Auditory prime	Meanings	Experimental target	Control target
學 xue2 [ROM = 5.52]	Primary: ‘to learn’	研習 yan2xi2 ‘to study’	創立 chuang4li4 ‘to establish’
學 xue2 [ROM = 5.52]	Secondary: ‘to imitate’	模仿 mo2fang3 ‘to imitate’	表明 biao3ming2 ‘to state clearly’
裝 zhuang1 [ROM = 1.71]	Primary: ‘to pack into’	放進 fang4jin4 ‘to put into’	發炎 fa1yan2 ‘to be infected with inflammation’
裝 zhuang1 [ROM = 1.71]	Secondary: ‘to pretend’	假冒 jia3mao4 ‘to pretend’	警示 jing3shi4 ‘to warn’
喝 he1	‘to drink’ (unambiguous)	飲用 yin3yong4 ‘to drink’	指派 zhi3pai4 ‘to appoint’