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Cadential Syntax and Tonal Expectation in Late Sixteenth-Century Homophony

open access: yes, 2018
This article explores the emergence of tonal languages in late-sixteenth-century homophony by considering the ways in which phrase structure, meter, and cadential rhetoric produce trajectories of expectation.
Megan Kaes Long
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Delving into the Whimsical Charm of Tainan: A Linguistic Landscape Analysis of Humorous Street Signage That Goes Beyond Homophony

open access: yesAcademic Journal of Modern Philology
This study explores the humorous street signage that goes beyond homophony by investigating Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan. Drawing on a linguistic landscape approach, a total of 173 images were analysed to explore the functions of humour in Tainan’s ...
Eryk Hajndrych
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Evolution and Trade-Off Dynamics of Functional Load. [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy (Basel), 2022
Round E, Dockum R, Ryder RJ.
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The nature of homophony and its effects on diachrony and synchrony

open access: yes, 2009
The role of homophony in language change and in child morphological acquisition has often been made recourse to. Regarding the former it has been proposed that the threat of homophony can prevent a sound change from going to completion.
Mondon, Jean-Francois
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Sad Author of Funny Poetry: Edward Lear and Nonsense Poetry

open access: yesPitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva, 2013
The article is devoted to the study of Edward Lear’s art and literary works, in particular his nonsense poetry. The attention is drawn to E. Lear’s role in popularizing the limerick genre form in British and world poetry. The purpose of the article is to
Aliona Matiychak
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Phonology and reading: The effects of articulatory suppression upon homophony and rhyme judgements

open access: yes, 1987
Articulatory suppression, the production of speech which is strictly irrelevant to the task in hand, has been considered as an experimental manipulation which might interfere with the translation of written stimuli into a phonological code, and it has ...
Richardson, John T. E.
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Horizontal Homophony

open access: yes
Number neutralisation—the loss of singular-plural distinctions—is one of the most common homophony patterns in pronominal paradigms across languages but follows systematic asymmetries across person values. Specifically, number distinctions are claimed to
Carmen Saldana, Mora Maldonado
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Anti-homophony and resource distribution in Aragonese

open access: yesProbus
Abstract Homophony is often removed from languages to improve form-function isomorphism; this removal is known as homophone avoidance or ANTI-HOMOPHONY (AH). This article examines diachronic data from Aragonese and argues that AH, mediated by resource redistribution (ostensibly, suffix-borrowing), played a key ...
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