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Everything about Heteronym (linguistics)
Distinct words with the same spelling
A heteronym is a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning as another word but the same spelling, that is, they are homographs but not homophones. Thus, lead and lead are heteronyms, but mean (average) and mean (intend) are not, since they are both pronounced /miːn/. Heteronym pronunciation may vary in vowel realisation, in stress pattern, or in other ways. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Heteronym (linguistics)A 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Embodying PessoaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Lexical access in early stages of visual word processing: A single-trial correlational MEG study of heteronym recognitionCited 49 times
- Go sideways: List of English homographsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: HomophoneA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun (Can we verify this sense?) Calque.
Noun A word having the same spelling as another, but with a different meaning and (often) pronunciation.
Noun A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Lexical access in early stages of visual word processing: A single-trial correlational MEG study of heteronym recognition
Dionysus or Apollo? The Heteronym António Mora as Moment of Nietzsche's Reception by Pessoa
Alberto Caeiro as Zen Heteronym
Notes on the Modernist Long Poem in the Writings of Fernando Pessoa’s Heteronym Álvaro de Campos and T. S. Eliot
W.B. Yeats and the Introduction of Heteronym into the Western Literary Canon
Effect of orthographic, phonological and semantic information on the processes of Korean heteronym
Heteronym neben Synonym und Dublette im Deutschen
Editor's note: RECORD [heteronym]
📚 Books worth reading
Embodying PessoaAnna Klobucka, Mark Sabine · 2007- 📕Abstract refuseEd Epping · 1995
- 📕Duo yin zi fen du yan jiuZhicheng Wang · 1987
- 📕Pu tong hua yi du ci hui bian =Xinmin Wang · 1992
ContradictionaryFritz Spiegl · 2006- 📕Chang yong duo yi ci ci dianFengqing Yang · 1987
Han yu shi zhuan shu fu yin ci yan jiuXiangqing Cheng · 2003
Duo yin duo yi zi Han Ying zi dian = Chinese-English dictionary of polyphonic charactersRoderick S. Bucknell, Mu Yang · 1999
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