Heteronyms are words with 2 different possible pronunciations that are associated with 2 (or more) different meanings. They can be used to investigate psychological mechanisms in reading and other cognitive processes. A corpus of English heteronyms has been collected and is tabulated here. In addition, a corpus of English polyphones is tabulated. These are words with different pronunciations that are not associated with different meanings. (10 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)