0 a word having the same sound as another word, but a different meaning -- enslydende ord, homonym
The words ‘there’ and ‘their’ are homonyms.
Therefore, it is possible that homonyms would be responded to more accurately than novel words in a task emphasizing lexical representations, such as picture naming.
Thus, changes in known lexical representations may lead to changes in homonym learning but not novel word learning.
In three types of trial the puppet indicates the same object as the child, an irrelevant object, or the homonym.
Since homonymy is very similar to synonymy, the argument can be extended to the case of homonyms.
What remains to be learned is whether a homonym disadvantage, no effect, or a homonym advantage would be observed in naturalistic word learning.
The present investigation offers an empirical test that provides a quantifiable comparison between the acquisition of homonyms and nonsense words.
The influence of word frequency on homonym learning has not been explored previously.
This difference is due to the low number of homonyms compared to polysemous entries.
