Homophony Relation

A Homophony Relation is a Polysemous Relation between two Spoken Words (Homophones) with identical Pronunciation (i.e. but different Word Senses).

• AKA: Homophony, Homophone Relation.
• Context:
  • It can be restricted to words with the same Part-of-Speech Role (e.g. Noun only compared with Nouns).
  • It can (typically) exclude the Relation between ambiguous Proper Nouns (E.g. “George Bush"). See: Entity Mention Resolution.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • Homophony(bank(river)/Noun, bank(organization)Noun) ⇒ TRUE.
  • Homophony(would/Verb, wood/Noun) ⇒ TRUE ; unless restricted to same POS Role.
  • Homophony(led/Verb, lead/Noun) ⇒ TRUE ; unless restricted to same POS Role.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • [math]\displaystyle{ f }[/math](content(state of being)/Noun, content(contents of an object)/Noun) ⇒ TRUE ; because they are Pronounced differently.
  • Polysemous Relation,
  • Monosemous Relation.
• See: Homograph Relation, Homonym Relation, Word Sense Disambiguation, Phonological Word Segmentation.

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References

• J Ke. (2006). “A Cross-linguistic Quantitative Study of Homophony.” In: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, Routledge.

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