{"id":8146,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homophones\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:31","slug":"homophones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homophones\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and differ in meaning (e.g., leek; leak; rain, rein, reign ). &nbsp;They have the same phonetic form or the same orthographic form (e.g., fluke that can be a flatworm or the fins on the tail of a whale) in which case they are referred to as homographs. &nbsp;The first homophones that seem to be learnt first in English are &#8216;to&#8217; and &#8216;too&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"orthographic_reading_skills\">Orthographic reading skills<\/a>, <a href=\"orthography\">Orthography<\/a>, <a href=\"phonology\">Phonology<\/a>, <a href=\"speech_development\">Speech development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and differ in meaning (e.g., leek; leak; rain, rein, reign ). &nbsp;They have the same phonetic form or the same orthographic form (e.g., fluke that can be a flatworm or the fins on the tail of a whale) in which case they are referred to as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homophones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homophones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}