Author Question: When a sentence in a written passage contains an ambiguous word, a. people typically do not ... (Read 179 times)

wenmo · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When a sentence in a written passage contains an ambiguous word,

a. people typically do not notice the ambiguity until they have finished reading the entire sentence.
b. people apparently access only the best-known meaning of that word.
c. people are highly unlikely to notice that the word may be ambiguous.
d. people typically pause while they process the ambiguous word.

Question 2

Suppose that you ask a stranger what time it is, and he produces several wordy sentences that don't seem to make sense. Without knowing additional information, you would suspect that he has

a. Wernicke's aphasia.
b. Broca's aphasia.
c. retrograde amnesia.
d. dyslexia.