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Article #137homonym, homophone, homograph
From: desmedt
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:46
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:46
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Is there any general agreement among linguists about the meaning of the terms homonym, homophone and homograph. My dictionary lists 'homograph' as two words spelled the same but with different pronunciation. However, it seems to me that the latter requirement is not necessary. I would say that homoghraphs are spelled the same and means something different, and may or may not be pronounced the same. Similarly and vice versa, mutatis mutandis, for homophone. Then for homonym, my dictionary says both words must be of the same word class (part of speech) but differ significantly in meaning. Again, the first requirement does not seem essential to me. What do other linguists think?
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Newsgroups: sci.lang Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!rulway.LeidenUniv.nl!rulfsw!desmedt From: desmedt@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl Subject: homonym, homophone, homograph Message-ID: <1992Jul23.164615.1@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl> Lines: 16 Sender: news@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl (Usenet news account) Nntp-Posting-Host: rulfsw Organization: Leiden University Faculty of Social Sciences Date: 23 Jul 92 16:46:15 +0100