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Holisme et homophonie

Dialogue, 2000
AbstractWe believe that, granting radical holism, a homophonie (or disquotational) definition of truth for a language achieves no progress towards guaranteeing the material equivalence of the left- and right-hand-side sentences for T-sentences. In order to avoid paradoxes such as the antinomy of the liar, Tarski requires that the metalanguage be ...
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Partial homophony and decoy lexicalisation in S’ncamtho and Ndebele slang

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2022
Sociolinguistic research has established that age is a factor in language variation and ultimately language change. Youthful manipulation of  language creates vernacular which results in the phenomena of youth languages and registers.
Sambulo Ndlovu
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On homophony and methodology in morphology

Morphology, 2008
An analysis of the Afro-Asiatic prefixal conjugation is presented, arguing that the prefixal t of second and some third persons comprises two distinct morphemes. The claim is supported by intralinguistic evidence, from other verbal and non-verbal forms, and historical/comparative evidence, that has not generally been considered in this context before ...
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Interprétation et homophonie

Figures de la psychanalyse, 2019
Les différents types d’interprétation sont étudiés d’après les indications de Lacan. La première partie de cet article tente de définir ce qu’est une interprétation dans la cure analytique. L’une d’entre elles est développée plus précisément, l’homophonie.
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Homophony, Validity, Modality

1997
Abstract A semantic theory for a language exhibiting a particular feature treats that feature homophonically when its treatment of sentences having that feature itself exhibits the feature in question.1 The features at issue here are semantically characterized properties of individual unstructured expressions (‘semantic primitives ...
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An Example of Homophony in Maya Script

American Antiquity, 1984
This report demonstrates recourse to homophony in ancient Maya script, illustrating the generalization of signs on the basis of their phonetic values, apart from their primary semantic values. It focuses on substitutions, in eight glyphic contexts, of signs for “sky,” the number “four,” and “snake,” the words for which are homophonous or nearly ...
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Judging Homophony in Chinese: The Influence of Tones

1992
When making judgements about whether one character is homophonic with another, both Mandarin and Cantonese speakers encounter difficulties in saying “no” when the characters have the same phonemes but different tones, regardless of whether the task is performed silently or aloud.
Marcus Taft, Hsuan-Chih Chen
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On the modeling of homophony syllabary in Chinese dialects

Journal of Chinese Linguistics
ABSTRACT: Phonetic comparison of Chinese dialects has been an important issue of academic interest. There are still some prominent problems with various existing metric comparison methods, such as randomness of phonemic processing and insufficient sampling of cognates or core words.
Nankai Wu, Xingquan Hou, Jiangping Kong
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Choral chant organized as homophony

2020
Like the titles of other conference papers, this one should express the kernel of the paper; however the kernel is not the objective of the paper: the objective concerns a way to solve a contradiction that appears in producing “modern” Christian liturgical chants, while the kernel concerns certain musical “technology” (syntax), i.e.
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homophony, n.

2023
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