0 a word that is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning or spelling, or both -- 同音词（读音相同，意义或写法不同）
Their function here is to prevent homophones becoming homographs.
Even accidental utterance of a homophone or nearhomophone of a person's hidden name is enough.
The same 243 pairs were used in both the homophone judgment task and the synonym judgment task.
When investigating homophones, for instance, this is a highly relevant question.
Thus, for example, the ability orally to distinguish and apply homophones to words requires vocabulary knowledge.
In the training trials, two homophone pairs, two synonym pairs, and two control pairs were presented in a random order.
Although these words have different final vowels, they are considered bilingual homophones.
In each case, one of the three incorrect choices (homophonous error) would be appropriate if the target word were confused with its homophone.
