Homophones and Homographs: An American Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Book Overview
This expanded fourth edition defines and cross-references 9,040 homophones and 2,133 homographs (up from 7,870 and 1,554 in the 3rd ed.). As the most comprehensive compilation of American homophones (words that sound alike) and homographs (look-alikes), this latest edition serves well where even the most modern spell-checkers and word processors fail--although rain, reign, and rein may be spelled correctly, the context in...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0786424885
ISBN13:9780786424887
Release Date:August 2006
Publisher:McFarland & Company
Length:370 Pages
Weight:1.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 7.2" x 10.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
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A delightful and useful book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This is a delightful and useful book. At least three kinds of people should buy it:(1) People in computational linguistics and natural language processing. If you work in speech recognition, you need homophones to test (or illustrate challenges for) speech recognition systems. If you work in natural language processing, you need homographs to test your system's ability to handle lexical ambiguity. This book is a great source for both.(2) People in phonetics and sociolinguistics. If you do experimental work in these fields, you want lots of minimal pairs. Although they're not labelled as such, this book will point you towards lots of minimal pairs for flapping, glide raising, and other phonological phenomena of English.(3) People interested in the English language in general. I came across lots of interesting and cool words in here, and enjoy just flipping through this book.In addition, the book is beautifully printed and bound. I would have expected it to cost a lot more.
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