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Abstract:
A. Caramazza, A. Costa, M. Miozzo, and Y. Bi (2001) reported a series of experiments demonstrating
that the ease of producing a word depends only on the frequency of that specific word but not on the
frequency of a homophone twin. A. Caramazza, A. Costa, et al. concluded that homophones have
separate word form representations and that the absence of frequency-inheritance effects for homophones
undermines an important argument in support of 2-stage models of lexical access, which assume that
syntactic (lemma) representations mediate between conceptual and phonological representations. The
authors of this article evaluate the empirical basis of this conclusion, report 2 experiments demonstrating
a frequency-inheritance effect, and discuss other recent evidence. It is concluded that homophones share
a common word form and that the distinction between lemmas and word forms should be upheld.
