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Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same (), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones).
Pseudo-homophones are pseudowords that are phonetically identical to a word. For example, groan/grone and crane/crain are pseudo-homophone pairs, whereas plane/plain is a homophone pair since both letter strings are recognised words. Both types of pairs are used in lexical decision tasks to investigate word recognition. [27]
Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings; Homophonic translation; Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning.
Such homophones can only arise when the word without a historic /l/ also has the THOUGHT-NORTH-FORCE vowel in a morpheme-internal position, as in morpheme-final positions it will be pronounced as [ɔə] rather than [oː], thus Paul's ([poːz]) and paws ([pɔəz]), bald ([boːd]) and bored ([bɔəd]) etc remain distinct.
affect / ə ˈ f ɛ k t / verb to have an effect on / ˈ æ f ɛ k t / noun mood, emotional state affiliate / ə ˈ f ɪ l i ə t / noun a company, organization etc. that is connected with or controlled by a larger one / ə ˈ f ɪ l i eɪ t / verb if a group or organization affiliates to or with another larger one, it forms a close connection ...
Changes affect short vowels in many varieties before an /r/ at the end of a word or before a consonant /a/ as in start and /ɔ/ as in north are lengthened. /ɛ, ɪ, ʌ, ʊ/ (the last of these often deriving from earlier /oːr/ after w , as in worm and word ) merge before /r/ , so all varieties of ModE except for some Scottish English and some ...
The shift causes the vowel sound in words like cot, nod and stock and the vowel sound in words like caught, gnawed and stalk to merge into a single phoneme; therefore the pairs cot and caught, stock and stalk, nod and gnawed become perfect homophones, and shock and talk, for example, become perfect rhymes.
affect and effect; aid and aide; ail and ale; air, ere, and heir; aisle, I'll and isle; all and awl; allowed and aloud; allude and elude; altar and alter; appose and oppose; arc and ark; are and our; ascent and assent; ate and eight; away and aweigh; aye, eye and I; bade and bayed; bail and bale; bait and bate; bald, balled and bawled; ball and ...