Representation of Korean ambiguous verbs

Two experiments were performed to investigate whether meanings of Korean ambiguous verbs are represented distinctly or as single core meanings in the mental lexicon. Homonymous verbs that have unrelated meanings and polysemous verbs that have related senses were used as experimental stimuli. In Experiment 1, after all the ambiguous verbs were processed in specific phrase contexts, recognition performance of the verbs were measured in the same phrase context, the same meaning(sense) context, and the different meaning(sense) context. In Experiment 2, sensicality judgment data of the phrases that contained the ambiguous verbs were obtained just after the verbs were processed as specific meanings(senses). The results of Experiment 1 suggested that meanings(senses) of both ambiguous verbs might be represented as distinct lexical entries, whereas Experiment 2 resulted in the data suggesting the single core representation in the case of the polysemous verbs. Considering the experimental material and several methodological problems drove us to a tentative conclusion that meanings of the homonymous verbs are represented as distinct lexical entries while those of the polysemous verbs are represented as common core meanings. Some conceptual and methodological problems were discussed in terms of the previous research on the representation of ambiguous nouns, and the directions of future research were suggested.

keywords: 동철동음 동사, 중다의미 동사, 심성어휘집, 어휘표상, homonymous verb, polysemous verb, mental lexicon, lexical representation, homonymous verb, polysemous verb, mental lexicon, lexical representation

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Vol.16 No.2

Representation of Korean ambiguous verbs

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The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology