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Is there any synchronic difference between homonymy and polysemy?
Is there any synchronic difference between homonymy and polysemy?
As a literate English speaker, I can usually tell when words that are pronounced
identically have different etymologies thanks ...
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Are English homonyms distinguishable by pitch profile?
I was told years ago by a teacher at a Carden School that they teach their students that English homonyms, especially those with diphthongs, can be told apart by the pitch profile of the vowel sound. ...
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Hierarchy of meanings in a dictionary
What base does vocabulary.com use for its hierarchy of meanings of a word? For example see http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/sound. Are top levels (numbered list) all homonyms?
What structure do ...
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Is there a term for reading a homonym that means one thing but interpreting it as another?
For example, a friend of mine posted a picture of a book series on Facebook and the start of his caption was "Read all 13!" I initially interpretted this as an imperative sentence ([ɹid] all 13), but ...
