PROCESSING LEXICAL AMBIGUITY AND VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION IN A DEEP ORTHOGRAPHY*

This study examined the influence of phonemic and semantic ambiguity on lexical decision and naming performance in Hebrew. Most lexical ambiguity research has concentrated primarily on the way homographs (polysemous words) are disambiguated within a semantic context (for a recent review see Examination of lexical ambiguity in relation to lexical access and models of word recognition IS of special interest in Hebrew orthography because of its special way of conveying phonemic * Memory £4 Cognition, 1987, 15, 13-23. t Also