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Originally Posted by Lenka I can't understand how you can say that term "polysemy" isn't normally used... How do you call the words with more meanings (and the grammatical phenomenon), then? It's not "homography", apparently! |
The terms
homonym and
polysemy describe words; the terms
reduced forms,
connected speech, known also as
fast speech, describe an array of (connected) words:
want to
wanna
do you
ja
Do you want to?
Jawanna?
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Authentic communication: Whyzit importan' ta teach reduced forms?
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