Meaning of heterophonous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Heterophonic, pertaining to heterophony of musical (or, by extension, other) sounds.
   not-comparable
2. Not homophonous; pronounced differently.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Heterophonous wheezing sounds like⟳ many different musical notes and varies in intensity and pitch across different lung fields. Heterophonous wheezes occur⟳ in bronchiolitis, asthma, pulmonary edema, and pneumonia because this type⟳ of ...”

“Constituents of different words as well as constituents of the same word may be heterophonous or homophonous. Clearly, by virtue of their constituents the words themselves become⟳ heterophonous or homophonous.”

“Such effects were reproduced by Dijkstra et al. (1999) on homophonic (but not homographic) Dutch–English words (e.g. leaf, homophonous of the Dutch word lief -gentle-). […] English-Afrikaans bilinguals produced more errors and took longer to accept⟳ homophonous heterographic words (e.g. lake-lyk) than to accept⟳ homographic heterophonous words (e.g. kind, meaning child in Afrikaans) […]”

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