Heteronyms and polyphones categories of words with multiple phonemic representations

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AuthorsMartin, Maryanne OAJones, Gregory V.OANelson, Douglas L.OANelson, LouiseOA

Year1981

JournalBehavior Research Methods

DOI10.3758/bf03202018

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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)

LanguageEnglish

Stimuli typewords

Stimuli count124

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The use of heteronyms in a vocal response task allows assessment of the influence of such context. Choice of pronunciation should vary between complete accuracy and a random base level, depending on the extent to which top-down processing is occurring.

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