(1) Experiment 1 visually presented uncommon spellings of homophones to subjects before and during a suggestion for hypnotic blindness, and subsequently tested subjects' spelling of the homophones.
(2) A further study required subjects to decide whether visually presented nonwords were homophonous with real words.
(3) Procedural memory, as measured by stem completion, homophone spelling and transformed text reading, did not differ between Alzheimer patients and controls.
(4) Van Orden (1987) reported that false positive errors in a categorization task are elevated for homophonic foils (e.g., HARE for A PART OF THE HUMAN BODY).
(5) Experiment II was designed for dissociation between phonemic and semantic information of the memory trace, using homophones as study and test items.
(6) The Post alleged his surname was changed to "Jia": a homophone for "fake" in Chinese, but also the surname of another senior leader, Jia Qinglin, who was reportedly furious at rumours that his family might be involved and ordered an investigation.
(7) The implicit memory ability of a patient (S.S.) with severe amnesia due to encephalitis was assessed using five independent paradigms: Perceptual priming with real words and pseudowords; Word-stem completion with and without contextual cues; Word-stem completion following presentation of high- vs. low-frequency words; Biasing of the spelling of ambiguous (homophonic) words; and Conceptual priming.
(8) Subjects' attributions of their performance did not involve awareness of the homophones.
(9) When the primes were homophonic homographs, semantic relationship facilitated lexical decision of targets at all SOAs regardless of the dominance of the meaning to which the targets were related.
(10) Two experiments provided evidence of environmental context-dependent memory using a homophone spelling test (e.g., Jacoby & Witherspoon, 1982), an implicit, indirect measure of memory (Richardson-Klavehn & Bjork, 1988).
(11) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 29 May 2009 Near homophone corner: referring to the leader comment below, a reader justly asks, "Calling Miliband and Johnson Messers may well have been an opinion but could you have meant Messrs?".
(12) Additionally, in each of two experiments, matched word and nonword homophones produced virtually identical error rates.
(13) These data can be accounted for by assuming multiple lexical entries for heterophonic homographs, single lexical entries for homophonic homographs, and phonological mediation of accessing meanings.
(14) "The Japanese government is eager to break through the postwar system," wrote the ruling Communist party's flagship People's Daily newspaper in an editorial written under the name Zhong Sheng, a homophone for Voice of China .
(15) A homophone of a target word, when presented as a preview in the parafovea, facilitated processing of the target word seen on the next fixation more than a preview of a word matched with the homophone in visual similarity to the target word.
(16) Results of the present study, involving the recognition and spelling of semantically biased homophones, suggest a negative answer to this question and imply that intraoperative events cannot be remembered postoperatively, either with or without awareness.
(17) If stimulus nonword homophones are viewed as extremely unfamiliar words, compared with the relatively familiar stimulus word homophones, then our failure to observe an effect of stimulus familiarity strengthens the case that phonological coding plays a role in the identification of all printed words.
(18) She learned to use homophones to evade the censors.
(19) The present study investigates the influence of different contexts on their interpretations of homophones.
(20) Although his oral reading of words is prompt and generally accurate, analysis of his lexical decision performance and the way that he defines homophones indicate that he does not have fully specified lexical entries available for reading either.
Polyphonic
Definition:
(a.) Having a multiplicity of sounds.
(a.) Characterized by polyphony; as, Assyrian polyphonic characters.
(a.) Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic, or monodic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The power of polyphonic vocal in a reverberant space – it’s simple and transcendent.
(2) Greece is and must remain a democratic, well-ruled, tolerant and polyphonic society which claims an equal place in Europe.
(3) We can absorb written stuff in different ways, and in polyphonic ways.
(4) What we really desire is the polyphonic cacophony of real democracy, the one we could hear in the post-punk explosion.
(5) Although house music was driven by outdated electronic technology, principally Roland drum machines and rudimentary polyphonic synthesisers, Knuckles's intentions revealed him as someone more ambitious than the average bedroom producer.
(6) In the second half, as the story neared its climax, the structure was cleared, and the final scenes played out under arc lights on the vast amphitheatre of the Barbican stage , with each Johan and Marianne shadowing each other – sometimes chanting the text in unison, sometimes splintering polyphonically into pairs or groups.
(7) 2) Continuous adventitious lung sounds in asthmatic patients were divided into monophonic tones and polyphonic tones, according to sound spectrographic findings.
(8) Hecker turned these polyphonic templates into fresh scores, then gave them to the Icelandic Choir Ensemble at a recording session in Reykjavík, with instructions to “imagine you’re Chewbacca and you have a saxophone, and you just drunk 8,000 litres of codeine – now sing 10 times slower than that.” The aim was to drain their voices of any expression – “to become, like, dead, basically.” Some of the choir were hungover.
(9) But the ravages of deindustrialisation only encouraged Nyman to hook up with Christopher Monks, artistic director of the Armonico Consort – a polyphonic choral group – to bring Hillfields and Monteverdi together: this month, children from Frederick Bird will be involved in a project called Monteverdi's Flying Circus, singing the Ave Maris Stella from the Italian master's 1610 Vespers.
(10) This pool of virtuoso musicians has seeded a music scene that’s the envy of much larger cities, producing acts such as Norah Jones, the Polyphonic Spree, Neon Indian and Midlake .
(11) Everywhere you went in Paris during the revolt in Tunisia , portable televisions blared at top volume in shops, takeaways and cafes, broadcasting a polyglot, polyphonic babble from Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and the French-speaking channels from the Maghreb.
(12) The origin of the polyphonic tones was unknown, but they were also relatively well transmitted to the neck over the trachea.