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Word-meaning priming extends beyond homonyms.
When a homonym (e.g., bark) is encountered in a sentential context that biases its interpretation towards a less frequent meaning, subsequent interpretations of the word are more likely to favour that subordinate meaning.
Adam J. Curtis +4 more
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Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms.
The occurrence of different sponge species bearing the same Linnean binomial name combination, i.e. homonyms, is to be avoided for obvious reasons. In a review of sponge taxon names of the World Porifera Database, we detected 121 homonymic cases (115 ...
Rob W. M. van Soest +2 more
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Interlingual Homonyms of Polysemic Origin in Related Languages
The article deals with lexical units of homonymic character functioning on the inter-linguistic level in Slavic languages. The emphasis is put on interlingual homonyms with the origin in the semantic relation of polysemy.
Marta Lackova, Eva Lelakova
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Phenomenon of Functional Homonymy in Ossetian Language
The phenomenon of homonymy in the Ossetian language is considered as one of the complex and multi-aspect problems in Ossetian linguistics and in general linguistic theory.
L. B. Morgoeva
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Lexical homonyms in the Mari language.
The subject of the study is lexical homonyms in the modern Mari language. The material of the scientific work was the data of the 10-volume dictionary of the Mari language, the Mari-Russian dictionary, the author's card file, compiled by selecting ...
Elena Grigor'evna Lastochkina
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Word Type Effects on L2 Word Retrieval and Learning: Homonym versus Synonym Vocabulary Instruction [PDF]
The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to assess the retention of two word types (synonyms and homonyms) in the short term memory, and (b) to investigate the effect of these word types on word learning by asking learners to learn their Persian ...
Habibollah Mashhady +2 more
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eDom: Norming software and relative meaning frequencies for 544 English homonyms
David Plaut +2 more
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The Emergence of Homonyms in the Semantic Method [PDF]
The article deals with the formation of homonyms semantically. Analysis of homonyms, the role of thinking, linguistic consciousness, perception in the understanding of homonyms. The order of meaning comprehension on the basis of homonyms is analyzed.
Abdurakhmanova, M. (M) +1 more
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SYNTACTIC HOMONYMS IN THE MODERN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE (VARIABILITY AND RE-DECOMPOSITION) [PDF]
The aim of the article is to analyse syntactic homonyms in the modern Russian language, mainly variability and re-decomposition. Generally homonyms are understood as a sound coincidence of various linguistic units, the meanings of which are not related ...
Igor I. Menshikov
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