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Reading Words in Discourse: The Modulation of Lexical Priming Effects by Message-Level Context

Kerry Ledoux

Johns Hopkins University

C. Christine Camblin

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tamara Y. Swaab

University of California, Davis

Peter C. Gordon

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Repetition and semantic-associative priming effects have been demonstrated for words in nonstructured contexts (i.e., word pairs or lists of words) in numerous behavioral and electrophysiological studies. The processing of a word has thus been shown to benefit from the prior presentation of an identical or associated word in the absence of a constraining context. An examination of such priming effects for words that are embedded within a meaningful discourse context provides information about the interaction of different levels of linguistic analysis. This article reviews behavioral and electrophysiological research that has examined the processing of repeated and associated words in sentence and discourse contexts. It provides examples of the ways in which eye tracking and event-related potentials might be used to further explore priming effects in discourse. The modulation of lexical priming effects by discourse factors suggests the interaction of information at different levels in online language comprehension.

Key Words: words • discourse • eye movement • ERPs • reading

Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, Vol. 5, No. 3, 107-127 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1534582306289573
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