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[Laurence Horn]

I just wrote
>
>The literature on homonymy (for example, the extensive recent
>discussion in the psycholinguistic journals on children's resistance
>to hyponyms)

Of course I meant homonyms, not hyponyms.  (although children are
also resistant to hyponyms, but that's another story.)

>typically disregards orthographic distinctions, so that
>even though "seeded" and "seated" are not homographs, they're
>homonyms.   This has been true for some time, as in the classic
>treatise by Edna Rees Williams, _The Conflict of Homonyms in English_
>(Yale U. Press, 1944), which does not distinguish between homonyms
>that have the same spelling and those that don't.
>
>I'm no prescriptivist either, so as far as I'm concerned you're free
>to use the term in a more specific sense in which homophones that are
>not homographs are not homonyms, but that's not the standard use of
>the term in linguistics.
>
>Larry
>