Context Effects on Lexical Processing During Auditory Sentence Comprehension

Abstract

This paper presents an integrated view of the effects of context upon lexical access and lexical integration during sentence comprehension. The review incorporates evidence from both standard psycholinguistic and neuro-cognitive approaches. Along with this integrated overview, new hemisphere-specific processing evidence concerning context and lexical processing is presented. The evidence is taken to support a "modes of processing" perspective in the examination of sentence comprehension.