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College of Education for Women, Tikrit University
2
College of Education, Tikrit University
Abstract
The majority of content words do not have a single meaning for each; rather they associate to a number of senses. When these senses are semantically incompatible in non-neutral contexts, they are then homonymous; otherwise, they are polysemous where polysemous words have an underspecified meaning that encompasses their different senses. To reliably differentiate between these two lexical relations helps very much in the improvement of the retrieval process.
Abdurrahman,I B and Jawad,I T . (2017). The Ability of EFL Students to Differentiate between Homonymy and Polysemy. Journal of Language Studies, 1(Issue 1), 92-126.
MLA
Abdurrahman,I B , and Jawad,I T . "The Ability of EFL Students to Differentiate between Homonymy and Polysemy", Journal of Language Studies, 1, Issue 1, 2017, 92-126.
HARVARD
Abdurrahman I B, Jawad I T. (2017). 'The Ability of EFL Students to Differentiate between Homonymy and Polysemy', Journal of Language Studies, 1(Issue 1), pp. 92-126.
CHICAGO
I B Abdurrahman and I T Jawad, "The Ability of EFL Students to Differentiate between Homonymy and Polysemy," Journal of Language Studies, 1 Issue 1 (2017): 92-126,
VANCOUVER
Abdurrahman I B, Jawad I T. The Ability of EFL Students to Differentiate between Homonymy and Polysemy. JLS. 2017;1(Issue 1):92-126.
