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Defectiveness and homophony avoidance [PDF]
Journal of Linguistics, 2010 The idea that certain morphological and phonological irregularities are due to speakers' desire to avoid homophony is widely invoked, yet has also come under strong criticism as an explanation which is neither necessary nor sufficient. In most cases there is no way to resolve the question, since the assumption that something is being avoided is itself ...
Baerman, Matthew
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Quantifying French liaison-induced homophony [PDF]
, 2022 The French phonological rule of liaison, whereby certain underlying word-final consonants surface only when the following word starts with a vowel, sometimes creates homophony.
Turnbull, Rory +2 more
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VNU Journal of Foreign Studies, 2017 Homophony is a common phenomenon in languages and various studies on homophony have been conducted. However, homophones are just generally understood as different lexical units with similar or identical pronunciation but different meanings. This paper analyzes different views on homophones in existing literature and presents a comprehensive, complete ...
Ha Quang Nang
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Pseudo-homophony in non-native listening [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004 Pseudo-homophony may result when non-native listeners cannot distinguish phonemic contrasts. Thus Dutch listeners have difficulty distinguishing the vowels of English cattle versus kettle, because this contrast is subsumed by a single Dutch vowel category; in consequence, both words may be activated whenever either is heard. A lexical decision study in
Cutler, A., Otake, T.
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Slovnědruhová a morfologická homonymie, homofonie a homografie v současné češtině : Part-of-Speech and Morphological Ambiguity, Homophony and Homography in Contemporary Czech [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2015 The paper presents a classification of the types of morphological ambiguity and the types of homophony and homography in contemporary Czech occurring in the material of the SYN and SYN2013PUB corpora of the Czech National Corpus.
Petkevič, Vladimír
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A study of Mandarin homophony [PDF]
, 2017 An investigation into the distribution of homophones was conducted using a large written corpus (Da, 2007). Both tone and homophony were found to be systematically uneven, with a tendency toward clustering. Syllables with the full complement of tones have, on average, higher homophone densities than those with fewer tonally-specified syllables ...
Huff, Christopher Lloyd
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The Multidimensional Nature of Semantic Transparency in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective: Evidence From Human Intuitions, Computational Estimates, and Processing Data for Chinese Compounds. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract Semantic transparency is a key construct for understanding how complex words are represented and processed, yet it has been conceptualized and operationalized in diverse ways across studies. In this study, we validate whether semantic transparency exhibits multidimensional properties across different measures in Mandarin Chinese.
Chen J, Chersoni E, Marelli M, Huang CR.
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Türkçede Eş Biçimlilik Meselesi
Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Dilde yer alan birbirinden farklı iki veya daha fazla göstergenin unsurları olan gösterenler ve gösterilenler kimi zaman birbirlerine özdeş olabilirler.
Ekrem Sakar
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a reduction phenomena in Luyia
Studies in African Linguistics, 1986 A discussion of the complex segmental morphophonemics of the distant past tense marker /a/ in OluTsootso. Its interaction with other rules and conditions in the language is placed in the perspective of unifying disparate data, demonstrating the power of ...
Gerard M. Dalgish
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David Vikgren versus Antti Keksi
Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2021 David Vikgren Versus Antti Keksi: The Work of Orature in Phonemic poetry David Vikgren (1975–) has made a phonemic elaboration of an oral poem by Antti Keksi (1677). Both these poets are situated in Torne Valley in the very north of Sweden.
Eva Lilja
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