HOMOPHONES

A. Homophones
Homophones is the words that has similar sound but different in meaning.
Examples:
1. Meet-Meat-Mid
2. See-Sea-She

The same is true of bound forms. Compare:
1. Verbal inflectional suffix:        Feels /-z/ good
2. Noun plural inflectional suffix:    Frogs /-z/
3. Noun possessive inflectional suffix:    John’s /-z/

Some example of Homophones:

/tu/	/pɛr/			/its/	/yu/
Two	Pare	Buy	Peak	Its	Yew
Toe	Pair	By	Peek	Eats	You
To and Too	Pear	Bye	Peke

B. Phonesthemes
Phonesthemes are speech sounds that in themselves express, elicit, or suggest meaning.

1. Words with similar meaning
2. Words that have some consonant cluster
3. Words that suggest the common meaning

At the beginning of words, a number of consonant cluster appear to have phonesthematic value. Among them are those:

1. Light= glow, glare, glint, gleam, glisten
2. Moving light= flame, flash, flare, flambeau
3. Point = spire, spark, spot, spout, spade

At the end of two-syllable words, we find the phonesthemes /ₔl/ and /-ₔr/, each having the meaning of ‘repetition’. The repetition may be of auditory or visual details. Examples:
/-ₔr/ = chatter, clatter, gibber, patter, mutter
/ₔl/ = babble, giggle, twinkle, waggle, dribble