The aim of the study is to examine the effect of sentential context on lexical ambiguity resolution in Greek adults and typically developing children. Context and word frequency are factors that can affect lexical processing, however, the role of them has not been thoroughly examined in Greek. To this aim, we assessed sentence context effects in homonym meaning activation in monolingual speakers of Greek, children and adults, using a cross-modal priming paradigm. Additionally, all participants conducted a verbal working memory task and an inhibition task so as to examine whether the use of sentential context for lexical ambiguity resolution relates to age and/or cognitive processing capacity. The data analysis showed (a) major processing differences between adults and children due to ambiguity and sentential context, (b) children’s processing times affected by cognitive skills while adults’ processing unaffected, and (c) visual word recognition intact for all participants.

该研究的目的是检查句子上下文对希腊成年人和典型发育中儿童的词汇歧义解决的影响。上下文和词频是影响词汇处理的因素，然而，它们的作用在希腊语中尚未得到彻底的研究。为此，我们使用跨模态启动范式评估了单语希腊语使用者、儿童和成人的同音异义词激活的句子语境效应。此外，所有参与者都进行了言语工作记忆任务和抑制任务，以检查使用句子上下文解决词汇歧义是否与年龄和/或认知处理能力有关。数据分析显示（a）由于歧义和句子上下文，成人和儿童之间的主要处理差异；（b）儿童的处理时间受到认知技能的影响，而成人的处理不受影响；（c）所有参与者的视觉单词识别完好无损。