Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter briefly reviews the results of the cross-modal literature and evaluates the extent to which multiple access is an artifact of backward priming. In order to use lexical ambiguity as a window on the interface between context and lexical access, one needs experimental techniques that can be used to trace the availability of the information which becomes available during the word recognition process. Cross-modal lexical priming is one of the few candidates for such a methodology and it has been used extensively to study the effects of context on lexical processing. One of a class of multiple activation phenomena in lexical processing is multiple sense activation. Multiple pronunciations of non- homophonic homographs, such as wind, are activated in visual word recognition. Phonological and orthographic representations of words are activated in both auditory and visual word recognition. There is also some evidence both from gating studies as well as cross-modal studies that semantic information related to competing lexical candidates is activated prior to auditory word recognition.
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