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One issue with the lexicon is that it includes very rare words, including some that are homographs to more common words.
In the study, subjects were presented with Dutch - English homographs.
Examples of homographs are: duty (obligation) and duty (taxation); ring (verb: to telephone, or to draw a circle around) and ring (noun: a shape, a finger ring, a ring of toadstools etc.)

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homograph | American Dictionary

homograph
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhɑm·əˌɡræf/
grammar
a word which is spelled the same as another word, but that has a different meaning, origin, or pronunciation

Examples of homograph

homograph
The results of this study were straightforward: no facilitation effects arose for interlingual homographs relative to controls, while cognates were facilitated.
The most likely objection to abandoning the apostrophe is probably the resultant confusion between homographs (words of identical spelling).
A homograph distinguishes between concept headings which are the same but mean different things in different contexts.
Thus, at least for this target it was clear that language switching did not make the late selection of the homograph's appropriate interpretation less efficient.
However, one could argue that the alternative reading of interlingual homographs is always completely supported by input information.
Most such research assessed inter-lingual homographs in the absence of connected text.
This may have attenuated the difference between homographs and controls in the naming task.
Each condition could maximally include 520 (26 homographs x 20 participants) trials.
Again, the assumption of a time criterion for non-target-language responses to interlingual homographs might explain this.
On being blinded by your other language: effects of task demands on interlingual homograph recognition.
Accessing interlexical homographs: some limitations of a language-selective access.
Note that a lexical decision to an interlingual homograph was only required in the experiment and not in the pilot studies.
Thus, the only test items that occurred twice in each experimental session were the interlingual homographs.
More on interlingual homograph recognition: language intermixing versus explicitness of instruction.
In addition, the first experiment demonstrated that language fluency has an impact on letter detection in inter-lingual homographs.
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