Semantic ambiguity dissociates the roles of word meaning and co-occurrence statistics in sentence processing
Andrey Zyryanov, Victoria Pierz, Yulia Oganian
The paper investigates how semantic ambiguity affects next-word prediction in humans, showing that processing costs are linked to word meaning rather than co-occurrence statistics, especially under ambiguity.
bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience