PRESENTATION ON HOMOPHONES,HOMONYMS,HOMOGRAPHS , VOCABULARY AND IDIOM

MADE BYNAME:RAJAT VERMAPROG ; B-TECH (ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING)ENROLLMENT NO : A2324612079BATCH : 2012-2016

DEFINATION :

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling. The words may be spelled the same, such as”rose” (flower) and ’rose’ (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as,’’carat,caret’’and carrot, or to, two, and too.

Homophones that are spelled the same are also both homograph and homonyms.Homophones that are spelled differently are also called hetrograph. The term "homophone" may also apply to units longer or shorter than words, such as phrases, letters or groups of letters that are pronounced the same as another phrase, letter or group of letters.

**they were too close to the door to close it **

HOMOPHONES

HOMONYMS

DEFINATION :

In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings.Thus homonyms are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones(words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling).

The state of being a homonym is called homonymy. Examples of homonyms are the pair stalk (part of a plant) and stalk(follow/harass a person) and the pair left (past tense of leave) and left (opposite of right). A distinction is sometimes made between "true" homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous homonyms, or polysemes, which have a shared origin, such as mouth (of a river) and mouth (of an animal).

HOMOGRAPHS

A homograph is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. When spoken, the meanings may be distinguished by different pronunciations, in which case the words are also heteronyms. Words with the same writing and pronunciation means both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms.

Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields. Identically-written different senses of what is judged to be fundamentally the same word are called polysemes.

** wood (substance) and wood (area covered with trees)**

RELATION BETWEEN HOMOPHONES AND HOMONYMS

VOCABULARY

Definition and usage Vocabulary is commonly defined as "all the words known and

used by a particular person“. Knowing a word, however, is not as simple as simply being able to recognize or use it. There are several aspects of word knowledge which are used to measure word knowledge.

TYPES OF VOCABULARY

Reading vocabulary Listening vocabulary Speaking vocabulary Writing vocabulary

VOCABULARY DRILLS

It helps students learn how to approach new words and to become more comfortable with the language—freeing them to explore new words and their meanings. Vocabulary study is contextualized with both narrative and expository passages. Additional structural analysis skills help students figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words in their own reading. Making connections helps students build personal word power.

New vocabulary words are connected by synonyms, antonyms, and analogies to words they may already know

Latin and Greek roots expand students’ vocabularies exponentially

Personal words help students build a useful bank of interesting words

THE IMPORTANCE OF A VOCABULARY

An extensive vocabulary aids expression and communication.

Vocabulary size has been directly linked to reading comprehension.

Linguistic vocabulary is synonymous with thinking vocabulary.

A person may be judged by others based on his or her vocabulary.

Wilkins (1972) once said," Without grammar, very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary, nothing can be conveyed.

IDIOM

An idiom is a combination of words that have a figurative meaningowing to its common usage. An idiom's figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.

Examplesa) She is pulling my leg. - to pull someone's leg means to trick them

by telling them something untrue.b) When will you drop them a line? - to drop someone a line means to

send a note to or call someone.c) You should keep an eye out for that. - to keep an eye out for

something means to maintain awareness of it so that you notice it as it occurs.