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论语境对模糊语意义获取影响 　　【摘要】模糊语的意义获取过程一直是心理学家与语言学家研究的课题。本文从一个全新的语境角度，即从上下文语境和个人语境两方面研究模糊语的意义获取过程。结果发现这两个因素在人们获取模糊语的正确含义的过程中的影响不容小觑。 　　【关键词】模糊语 语境 意义获取 　　【Abstract】Lexical ambiguity， particularly meaning access of lexical ambiguity， has long been the study object of psychologists and scholars. However， some individual factors are ignored when they are searching for the influence of context on meaning access of lexical ambiguity. The article tries to study ambiguous words’ meaning access from a new context concept， which includes textual context and personal context. It is found that both contexts should be taken into consideration when dealing with the issue. 　　【Key words】Lexical Ambiguity； Context； Meaning Access 　　1. Introduction 　　Lexical ambiguity， mostly due to polysemy and homonymy， is “the form of ambiguity in which a single word may be interpreted to have more than one meaning” （Carroll， 2008：124）. It seems that most of the time people are able to pick up the appropriate or right meaning when a multi-meaning lexicon is presented. Therefore， people have long been exploring the mechanism and factors that affects people’s select of meaning. 　　2. Literature Review 　　Foss （1970） once designed an experiment and found hat lexical ambiguity affects people’s understanding of sentence. Kramer and Stevens design a reading experiment to study the same issue and the result is accordance with that of Foss’s. Cairns and Kamerman （1975） find out that such kind of delay caused by multiple meanings is transient or disappears if the phoneme occurs two syllables down. 　　Some experts wonder whether a prior semantic context can override the process of choosing meaning. Is only the appropriate meaning activated or some meanings are activated at the same time？ Swinney （1979） examines the influence of context on the selection of meaning by applying a cross-modal lexical decision task. The results suggest that even in the presence of a strong biasing context， multiple meanings of am