Study and application of English homophones;

The study of homophones has long been neglected in English lexicology.

The homonym and polysemant are the important factors in ambiguous words,which are mainly construed in the following thesis.

In the process of studying English,it is likely to confuse homograph,homonym,and homophone.

Homonym may cause comprehension problems, which means that people will easily become confused when homonyms are used in communication.

This paper expounds seven methods to judge whether a homonym is a conjunction or a relative conjunction.

The shift rules in Black English lead to a great many homonyms that are different from those in standard English, which causes the main difference between Black English and standard English in grammar.

The results showed that participants of higher English levels were more significantly affected by homophones than those of low English levels.

This research, by conducting acoustic features analysis and perception experiments on 10 speakers speech material which contained two couples of Chinese homophones ("qu(4)shi(4)"("interesting thing"or "dying out") and "sheng(1)xue(2)" ("acousics" or "entering a higher school ")), has found that it is the sentence prominence, other than the stress, that disambiquite the two couples of homophones.

It holds that some linguistic features of Chinese language, which are characterized by homophone, free wording combination and excessive use of omission, etc, lead to its loose structure, ambiguous meaning.