Penny M. Pexman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Penny M. Pexman is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2405-6944
Articles
2026 Training studies provide new insights about mechanisms of irony development Investigating Children’s Irony Comprehension: Current trends, challenges, and perspectives, Fuchs-Kreiß, Julia (ed.), pp. 56–74 | Article
In verbal irony, there is a contrast between the literal meaning of what is stated and the intended meaning of the words. As successful comprehension of irony requires going beyond lexical meaning, the ability to understand it tends to develop late compared to literal language and it is… read more
2017 Effects of emotion information on processing pain-related words in visual word recognition The Mental Lexicon 12:3, pp. 283–308 | Article
We examined the effects of emotion information (valence, arousal, and emotional experience) on lexical decision and semantic categorization (using a “Is the word pain-related or not?” decision criterion) performance for pain-related words. Using linear mixed-effects modeling, we observed… read more
2007 Cross-modal repetition priming with homophones provides clues about representation in the word recognition system The Mental Lexicon 2:2, pp. 183–214 | Article
In three experiments, we assessed the impact of auditory homophone primes (/swi:t/) on lexical decisions to visually presented low-frequency (suite) and high-frequency (sweet) homophone spellings. In Experiment 1 we investigated the time course of these cross-modal repetition priming effects.… read more