- the same as a counterpart. Any unit with this
property is said to be
homophonous (/həˈmɒfənəs/).
Homophones that are
spelled the same are both homographs...
-
these two can also
merge with NEAR,
causing bad and
bared to
become homophonous with beard. A
merger of
words like bud and bird (/ɜːr/ and /ʌ/) occurs...
- The
following is a
partial list of
linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena.
Different types of
ambiguity which are possible...
- both as a
Chinese ideograph and, at times, pictorially, in one of its
homophonous forms. It is
often found on a
figurine of the male god of the same name...
- yolk can be /ˈjoʊlk/ or /ˈjoʊk/. yoke as /ˈjoʊk/ is only
conditionally homophonous.
Words like
fault and
vault did not
undergo L-vocalization, but rather...
- is
mainly derived from
three homophonous hanja. 鄭 (2,151,879), 丁 (243,803) and 程 (11,683). The rest of the
homophonous hanjas include: 政 (139), 桯 (41)...
- positions, such that
rabbit and
abbot rhyme and
Lenin and
Lennon are
homophonous, a
dialectal feature called the weak
vowel merger. GA /ɜr/ and /ər/ are...
- was only
introduced in the 20th century—both
characters remain exactly homophonous. Hong Kong and
Macau Cantonese Sumadinata, Leo (2013), "Southeast Asian...
- /kæf/ both
homophonous as [kʰæf]
halve e.g. A
knife can
halve the
bread in two. have e.g. She
might have fun. /hɛəv/
versus /hæv/ both
homophonous as [hæv]...
- BBC
provided the world's
first teletext service called Ceefax (near-
homophonous with "See Facts") from 23 September 1974
until 23 October 2012 on the...
