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Old 24-Jun-2007, 09:13
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Default Re: phonetics

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Originally Posted by Lenka View Post
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?

Click here: Authentic communication: Whyzit importan' ta teach reduced forms?

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