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The Ability of EFL Students to Differentiate between Homonymy and Polysemy | ||
| Journal of Language Studies | ||
| Volume 1, Issue 1, July 2017, Pages 92-126 PDF (1.07 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| Authors | ||
| Israa Burhanuddin Abdurrahman1; Istabraq Tariq Jawad2 | ||
| 1College of Education for Women, Tikrit University | ||
| 2College 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. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| EFL; students; homonymy; polysemy | ||
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