He noted with surprise that he was unable to find any homographic Russian verb forms, nor any homographs of more than five letters. |
Homographs are words with different derivations, meanings, or pronunciations, but that have the same spelling. |
To increase the number of potential associations to the target, I chose as targets simple, one-syllable homographs. |
The use of Pinyin poses problems of distinguishing homographs, as in the 24 etymologically unrelated forms spelt lian. |
Other homographs have known to cause problems even for native speakers. |
The target pool consisted of 100 homographs divided into 20 sets of 5 each. |