Phenomenon of Homonyms.

Introduction
In your own language you know many words that sound is the

same, but, it do not mean the same.

Semantics: The study of the

meaning.
Semantics is the study of meaning that is used to understand

human expression through language.

Linguistic Semantics studies the encoding of meaning in the

context of linguistic expressions.

- Denotation.
- Connotation.

The Semantics Relationship.

Hyponymy.

Words that share a general meaning but some features distinguish them. Ex.
Hyponyms of Day; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Morning, afternoon, evening.

Synonym.
Antonym.

Words that have similarity of meaning. Ex. Beautiful, Attractive, Pretty

The contrary of Synonym. Ex. Fat, Skinny Old, Young

Polysemy. A word which has two or more entirely distinct (unrelated) meanings.
Homonymy . The relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in

meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in
meaning.

Difference between Polysemy and Homonymy.

Polysemy: A word which has two or more entirely distinct

(unrelated) meanings.
Bank: 1. financial institution.
2. of a river.

Homophony: Different words pronounced the same but spelled

different.ly.
TWO- TO-TOO

Homonymic words.

Homophones
Words that sound the
same.
Ship and Sheep.

Homographs
Words that sound and are written the
same.
Pot (weed)
Pot (thing you cook food in)

What is a Homophone?
Words that sound the same but have different

meanings and spellings.

For example: "there", "their", "they're".
The wordhomophoneis made from two combining forms:
homo-(from the Greek wordhomos, meaning "same")
-phone(from the Greek wordphone, meaning "sound" or

"voice")

Homophones

Pear, Pair, and Pare

I pare a pair of

Are there any homophones in

Spanish?

Song: The Homophones

Conclusion
Are Homophones important?
Is this phenomenon creation or purely coincidence?