Timeline for How did homonyms come into existence?
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 19:11 | comment | added | Daniel | Which is too bad, since now when we try to describe words that are spelled and pronounced the same as each other, but with different meanings, we must use a word which can also mean homophone or homograph. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 19:01 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think that's Pinker choosing to treat homonymy and homophony as mutually exclusive categories in his particular context. In practice, homonymy is often used as the 'generic' word for several different phenomena. | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 18:34 | history | rollback | Daniel |
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 18:33 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 18:26 | history | answered | Otavio Macedo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |