Abstract
The existence and implications of large sets of homonyms within the set of elementary English words have been discussed in earlier papers [B. V. Bhimani, L. Earl, and R. Mitchell, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 37, 1210(A) (1965); B. V. Bhimani, ibid. 37, 1210(A) (1965)]. The work has now been extended to include the set of lexed items monosyllabic according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary. Some operational approaches to the resolution of homonyms are discussed. Because of the wide variation in the number of homonyms according to each of the five dictionaries studied, the effect of dialects was considered, together with (a) information on parts of speech of the lexed items and (b) the status of the items in the dictionaries as “current” or “obsolete.” [Work supported by Lockheed Independent Research.]
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