title: [Association norms for 68 German homonyms].
abstract: Norms for 68 German homophonic homographs were collected in a normal population comprising 100 subjects. Frequency and polarity as well as U-scores (index of ambiguity) are presented. 49 of the words revealed a clear dominance for only one meaning. 7 homophonic homographs were balanced, and for 12 words less than 5% of all associations were given for each of the inferior meanings. Studies 2a and 2b are a replication of previous findings on the resolution of semantic ambiguity. Inhibition effects were revealed for discordant triplet conditions which contained a long interstimulus interval between homograph and target, whereas an (insignificant) facilitation effect occurred for trials with a shorter interval. Results of study 2 are in line with context-sensitive models which claim that after the initial activation of all meanings of a homograph a context-guided process leads to a suppression of context-irrelevant homograph information.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Krankenhaus Hamburg. moritz@uke.uni-hamburg.de
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moritz
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mersmann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quast
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Andresen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012016:Reference Values