the linguistic phenomenon whereby words of different origins become identical in pronunciation
2.
part music composed in a homophonic style
homophony in American English
(həˈmɑfəni, hou-)
noun
1.
the quality or state of being homophonic
2.
homophonic music
Word origin
[1770–80; ‹ Gk homophōnía unison, equiv. to homóphōn(os) homophonous + -ia-y3]This word is first recorded in the period 1770–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: charade, lotto, parka, red flag, shotgun-y is a suffix of various origins used in the formation of action nouns from verbs (inquiry), also found in other abstract nouns (carpentry; infamy)
Examples of 'homophony' in a sentence
homophony
These results about homophony must be integrated to current word learning algorithms.
Isabelle Dautriche, Emmanuel Chemla 2016, 'What Homophones Say about Words', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0162176. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Limits reached by these respellings (homophony, semantic ambiguity) will also be discussed.
Laura Gabrielle Goudet 2018, 'Internet representations of dialectal English', Corelahttp://journals.openedition.org/corela/5157. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)