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