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Because certain prepositions and conjunctions arehomographic, conjunctions may seem to mark cases.
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Withhomographiccognates, no such interference occurs, because only one semantic representation is activated.
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For bilingual readershomographicambiguity can result not only from lexical competition within a language but across languages as well.
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As noted, this possibility argues thathomographicactivation is selective.
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Homographicambiguity occurs not only within a language, but across languages sharing the same alphabet.
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Simplehomographicmatching of domain names has resulted in phishing attacks where a domain can appear to be legitimate, but is not.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Homographicexamples include "rose" (flower) and "rose" (past tense of "rise").
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Every conjugation exhibits some degree of syncretism, where the same (homophonous, and possibly alsohomographic) form is used to realize distinct combinations of grammatical features.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The registration ofhomographicdomain names is akin to typosquatting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ahomographicpun exploits words which are spelled the same (homographs) but possess different meanings and sounds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Finnish is very close to being a systematicallyhomographiclanguage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic,homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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