homonyms^2 n
see homophones
homonyms^3 nhomonymyn
words which are written in the same way and sound alike but which have
different meanings.
For example, the English verbs liein You have to lie downand liein
Don’t lie, tell the truth!
It is a well-known problem in semantics to tell the difference between
homonymy (several words with the same form but different meanings) and
polysemy(a single word with more than one meaning).
homophonesn
words which sound alike but are written differently and often have
different meanings.
For example, the English words noand knoware both pronounced /nvä/ in
some varieties of British English.
Homophones are sometimes called homonyms.
see also homographs
homorganicadj
made with the same place of articulation. The sounds /n /, /d /, and /s /
as in English hands are homorganic, because they all share the feature
alveolar.
For example, the sounds /p / and /m / are both produced with the two lips
(i.e. are bilabial), although one is a stopand the other a nasal.
see also assimilation, manner of articulation
honorificsn
politeness formulas in a particular language which may be specific affixes,
words, or sentence structures. Languages which have a complex system of
honorifics are, for instance, Japanese, Madurese (a language of Eastern
Java), and Hindi. Although English has no complex system of honorifics,
expressions such as would you..., may I..., and polite address forms
fulfil similar functions.
horizontal constructionn
see vertical constructions
HTMLn
an acronym for Hypertext Markup Language, the authoring language used
to create web pages. Once necessary for language teachers to know in order
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