Open AccessHOMOPHONY RE-VISITED
Author(s) -
Ha Quang Nang
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nghiên cứu nước ngoài
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2525-2445
DOI - 10.25073/2525-2445/vnufs.4216
Subject(s) - homophone , linguistics , phenomenon , pronunciation , computer science , philosophy , epistemology
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 and scientifc view on homophony in languages.