Anecdotal, but I feel like I tend to do subconsciously alter my diction a bit when the word is ambiguous from the context. I may use a slightly different voice

Anecdotal, but I feel like I tend to do subconsciously alter my diction a bit when the word is ambiguous from the context. I may use a slightly different voice inflection or stress or pacing to help disambiguate. Think of someone lingering on a punned word to emphasize the joke, for example.