Question

Lexical ambiguity studies show that people access ambiguous words based on
a. the word that comes immediately before and the word that comes immediately after the ambiguous word in the sentence.
b. a bottom-up progression of meaning comprehension.
c. the identification of a single meaning for that word.
d. the meaning dominance of each definition of the word.

Answer 1

Lexical ambiguity studies show that people access ambiguous words based on the meaning dominance of each definition of the word.

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

When a sentence carries a word that can have more than one meaning, than the occurrence of such writing error is termed as Lexical ambiguity. Such sentences can create complexity for readers to understand the exact meaning.

Here, the meaning of an ambiguous word is not clear or no obvious meaning and studies of lexical ambiguity demonstrate that people use this word based on the meaning dominance of each definition of the word.