He based this on the homophony and homography of the first singular, and 'homophony' of the 2nd singular pronoun. From Wordnik.com. [Minoan, Cyrus Gordon and academic politics] Reference
Strict homophony prevails in the motets for the Elevation of the Host. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
In most well-written homophony, the parts that are not melody may still have a lot of melodic interest. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Akkadian also inherited homophony from Sumerian, the capacity of different signs to represent the same sound. From Wordnik.com. [The Whisperers] Reference
I don't know, I've read that speakers of Thai don't especially go in for puns, despite the fact that homophony abounds. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PATAPOUFS! ANTHROPOPHAGES!] Reference
Only in a rare number of cases should homophony and obscure secondary meanings be a serious issue in disrupting this strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan Dictionary Project Updates] Reference
However, the problem with cao1操 is not merely a question of homophony something Weizhong Yang himself notes in his message to Boing Boing. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CENSORSHIP IN CHINESE MSN SPACES.] Reference
His text displays not the homophony of letters but the polyphony of orality, like a noisy inn where a voice is raised without necessarily silencing friends and opponents. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 - Presentation Speech] Reference
From Il quarto libro onwards these characteristics undergo a process of refinement, and are now combined with an increased use of pure homophony and an interest in textural contrast. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Paired imitation, the use of two voices moving in parallel, and textural contrast achieved by abrupt changes from polyphony to homophony support the impression of a shortwinded layout. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The use of a cantus firmus was not essential, while big intervals in the melodic lines, chromaticism and homophony in crucial places were all allowed to help the understanding of the words. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
However, despite their surface homophony, the underlying phonemic structure of “set” and “said” are sufficiently different as to render them very unlikely candidates for human confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Doctrine and the 21st Century] Reference
A low screaming, thrumming sound shivered the ground, like drums being beaten so fast that the individual impacts and their resonance blended into a seamless percussive texture, a strange form of homophony. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
In speech this cannot be distinguished from I didn't use to play football and people who wish to make it quite clear that they are shunning a solecism can only do so by avoiding the homophony completely and using an alternative form. From Wordnik.com. [4 posts from July 2007] Reference
The majority of Pedro de Cristo's surviving works are, however, written for four or five voices and in a predominantly imitative style although homophony is the basic texture in the settings of responsories and psalms, and short homorhythmic passages are common in other works. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Italian influence is especially evident in the first book, but all of the songs display the essential features of the villanella – dancelike rhythms, moments of homophony, simple harmony and melodies the latter often confined to the top voice in the texture, as well as parallel 5ths. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
These are based, just like the traditional pun, on homophony. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
The two middle words in the above examples depend on homophony. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4] Reference
Mnemic homophony gives us, without the addition of other processes of thought, a picture of our friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
From a linguistic point of view, the name Davidh can be understood as an imitation of yadhidh (homophony). From Wordnik.com. [Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective] Reference
If you want some fancy words for how puns can be created, consider homophony, homography, homonomy, or polysemy. From Wordnik.com. [Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune] Reference
In addition to external observable habits (including the habit of words), there is also the generic image produced by the superposition, or, in Semon's phrase, homophony, of a number of similar perceptions. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
Our modern art of homophony is like that in having but a single melody at each moment of the piece; but it differs from the ancient in the important particular of a harmonic support for the melody tones composed of. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
The question arises whether the binome represents a natural development of the language in an unconscious attempt to escape the difficulties of homophony; or as might be the case in relation to the written language, which appeals the eye only and not the ear, simply an affection of style. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses On Salt and Iron] Reference
It’s also a command if you’re willing to indulge in homophony. From Wordnik.com. [Today’s date is 03-04-05] Reference
No one around here has dealt with harmony in a couple of centuries, and the whole concept of homophony seems beyond everyone. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
Manchicourt’s setting of Peccatem me quotidie, for four voices, is distinguished by its expressive use of homophony, a somewhat infrequent technique in the 1530s. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
For the last time, get it through your thick heads that it’s His Noddle-A Appendage, not “His Noodle-E Appendage” which your corrupt and incompetent transliteration from Noddle-ese has for some reason homophony? rendered as “Noodly”. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Spaghetti Monsterism gets national press attention - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Homophonic music can also be called homophony. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Drum homophony?. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
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