Almost immediately after I wrote my post on heteronyms – words spelled identically but with different meanings and pronunciations – I got an email from a reader suggesting that I write a follow up on ...

Letter Character (male):Hi everybody and a big, big, big, welcome to the Homophone Sentence Show! Homophones are what we call two or more words that sound the same but have different meanings. We’ve ...

How context affects spoken word recognition processes during lexical access has been researched intensively over the past 30 years. When a listener hears an ambiguous word, with multiple meanings, in ...

This is a phonetic puzzle. I'm going to read you some sentences. Each sentence contains homophones of two opposites. (Ex. People in Albany enunciate well. --> all, none) Note: The homophones may be ...