… Response times for distantly related pairs was faster than for homonyms (distantly related
mean: 1253ms, homonym mean: 1406ms; t32=2.38; p<.0001) … In this case, polysemy did
seem to facilitate access to meaning when compared to homonymy …

… On the whole, their model of how polysemy is represented in the mental lexicon, the … the higher
relatedness of senses of polysemous words (compared to the meanings of homonyms) comes
from … of a polysemous adjective in the same way as [those] of a homonym” (1992: 202) …

… of senses, distinguishing between homonymy (ie completely distinct senses, like race as a
competition and race as a taxonomic group) and polysemy (eg race as a … The ODE identifies 3
homonyms and 3 polysemous senses for the first homonym, while WordNet …

… According to Palmer (1976) a polysemous word is treated as one entry while homonyms are
treated as different entries. This claim would be a great help in distinguishing between polysemy
and homonym."Homonyms are words that have separate histories and meanings, but …

… First, when a homonym is encountered in a text, both meanings receive activation (though the
subordinate meaning might not always … to occur without delay (though slight delays have been
observed for noun‐verb and verb‐verb homonyms, see Frazier … polysemy processing …

… 1999) further argues that, the initial problem in assessing the homonym-polysemy distinction
is to … Ogbulogo (2005) also shares the same view that distinction between polysemy and homonymy
is … with numbers suggesting the list of possible meanings while homonyms are listed …

… Polysemy proliferates in natural language: Virtually every word is polysemous to some
extent. Still, the phenomenon has been largely ignored in the mainstream linguistics
literature and in related disciplines such as philosophy of language …

… in terms, like “etymologically related” homonyms (Koskela & Murphy, 2006, p. 743); homonyms
“in spite [of … evidence as a “useful criterion for distinguishing between homonymy and polysemy”
(Lipka, 1990 … can be referred back to one etymon (ie, there is one polysemous unit and …

… These core meanings will vary in degree of abstractness, being essentially determined by the
degree to which they allow polysemy; the more polysemous (eg run), the more abstract the
representation, while the less polysemous (eg tachistoscope), the less abstract the …

… With these explications, it is clear that homonyms and polysemy are not the same … Lyone
(1977:590) refers to them as two types of lexical ambiguity, and introduces some criteria
for deciding when it is polysemy and when it is homonym …