You need to know a little about hot-type printing and
homographs to understand it.
The targets were one-syllable
homographs divided into 20 sets of 5 each.
Instead, because there are four
homographs, not just two, a second clue is offered, using the other pair.
A useful resource for investigating the relation of similarly spelled words in Shakespeare's early works is the list of
homographs provided by Marvin Spevack in his foundational Shakespeare Concordance.
Another example is the tracing of the distinction between the
homographs [.sup.kus][dam.sub.2]-ga "leather strap" and kus [dag.sub.2]-ga "cleaned hides" (p.
Morphological decomposition in reading hebrew
homographs. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45, 717-738.
Collection of norms on words has long been used in Psychology to estimate measures like frequency of written material occurrence (Kucera & Francis, 1967; Thorndike & Lorge, 1944); semantic categories (Battig & Montague, 1969); imageability, concreteness and meaningfulness (Paivio, Yuille & Madigan, 1968); and, association to
homographs (Kausler & Kollasch, 1970).
(42) The same applies to Croatian
homographs (e.g., obaviti 'accomplish' and obaviti 'wrap' are not distinguished).