Sentence examples for subordinate meaning from inspiring English sources

First, a sample of native speakers selected 56 words having maximally strong differences between a dominant and a subordinate meaning.

Targets were either related to the dominant or the subordinate meaning of the preceding homograph or were unrelated to it.

Prime-target semantic strength was manipulated by using lexical ambiguity primes (e.g., bank) and target words related to dominant or subordinate meaning of the ambiguity.

Half of the sentences affirmed the dominant meaning of the homograph, one-half the subordinate meaning (an additional set of sentences contained a noun with one meaning).

The right panel of figure 3 shows the proportion of correct responses ('sensible' responses) to each type of sentence (affirming the dominant meaning and affirming the subordinate meaning of the homograph).

The homographs are embedded in a sentence that fits with either the dominant or the subordinate meaning of the homograph on semantic grounds (e.g., "The bank had just been robbed by bandits" and "The bank had just been planted with grass").

After this, another sample from the same population was visually presented with sentences that activated dominant or subordinate meanings of the words and were accompanied by probes associated with dominant or subordinate meanings.

First, the cueing effects of dominant and subordinate meanings of ambiguous words were different for words presented to the left or to the right of the input layer.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) was used to test the hypothesis that Wernicke's area processes dominant meanings ("teller") whereas its right homologue processes subordinate meanings ("river") of ambiguous words ("bank"; Jung-Beeman, 2005).

For homonymous nouns but not polysemous nouns, eye fixations on the disambiguating regions of the subordinate meanings were longer than those on the dominant meanings.

These patients are highly sensitive to the executive requirements of semantic tasks—for example, they have difficulty retrieving the subordinate meanings of ambiguous words and struggle to reject highly associated distractor words in synonym judgment (Noonan et al. 2009).