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Ss gave word associations to the same set of 50 homographs on two occasions that were separated by either 5 min or 48 h. For each homograph, the probability of S’s giving, at both tests, word associations that represented the same semantic sense was determined by semantic scoring of the responses. Conditional probabilities of encoding switches also were obtained. Values are presented for each homograph. The relationship between the strength of a homograph’s primary semantic sense and different test-re test encoding patterns is discussed.
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This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant GB-18703 to the second author. The first author was supported by an NDEA Title IV fellowship from the Office or Education, HEW.
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Geis, M.F., Winograd, E. Norms of semantic encoding variability for fifty homographs. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 3, 429–431 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333516
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