目录 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Origin of the Study 1.2 Significance of the Study 1.3 Research Questions 1.4 Definition of Key Terms 1.4.1 Bilinguals 1.4.2 Lexical ambiguity 1.4.3 Semantic priming 1.4.4 Ambiguity advantage 1.4.5 Relatedness of meaning 1.5 Organization of the Book CHAPTER 2 REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF LEXICAL AMBIGUITY 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Lexical Ambiguity per se 2.2.1 Syntactic and lexical ambiguity 2.2.2 Criteria for lexical ambiguity 2.2.3 Lexical ambiguity as a continuum 2.2.4 Mechanisms of meaning extension 2.3 Theoretical Accounts of Lexical Ambiguity 2.3.1 Lexical ambiguity in theoretical linguistics 2.3.2 Lexical ambiguity in psycholinguistics 2.4 Feedback Account of the Ambiguity Effect 2.4.1 Interaction between representational levels 2.4.2 Semantic relatedness and its processing implications 2.5 Summary CHAPTER 3 LEXICAL AMBIGUITY IN THE BILINGUAL MIND 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Lexical Development in Bilinguals 3.2.1 Knowing a word 3.2.2 Constraints of post-puberty lexical development 3.2.3 Lexical development in a second language 3.3 Modeling the Bilingual Lexicon 3.3.1 Evidence from semantic priming 3.3.2 Bilingual representation models 3.3.3 Bilingual processing models 3.4 Lexical Ambiguity and SLA 3.4.1 Translation ambiguity in bilinguals 3.4.2 Meaning extension in L2 vocabulary learning 3.5 Summary CHAPTER 4 SIMPLE LEXICAL DECISION TASK 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Experiment Design 4.2.1 Research questions 4.2.2 Participants 4.2.3 Materials 4.2.4 Procedures 4.3 Results and Findings 4.3.1 Analysis of the reaction time data 4.3.2 Analysis of accuracy rate data 4.4 Discussion