What swimming says about reading: Coordination, context, and homophone errors

The pattern of homophone errors (e.g., BREAK mistaken for brake) may change across different tasks. Categorization, word-identification, and phrase-ev aluation experiments were conducted to explore this pattern. Tasks with wea k contextual constraints did not yield homophone errors to highly familiar homophones (e.g., BREAK is neither falsely identified as brake when present ed in isolation nor miscategorized as an object). However, strong contextua l constraints yield homophone errors in phrase-evaluations even to high-fre quency homophones (BREAK::part of a car). The latter result is counterintui tive-the phrase context appears after word identification should have alrea dy occurred.