The concept of metonymy also informs the nature of polysemy, i.e., how the same phonological form (word) has different semantic mappings (meanings).

Most morphemes have fairly similar phonological forms in the two languages.

A Vocabulary item whose context of insertion is sufficient to determine its phonological form.

A Vocabulary item whose phonological form cannot be determined solely by its context of insertion.

The phonological forms of words can be systematically modified.

These subskills are (a) the analysis of visual patterns, and (b) the conversion of the written form of a word into a phonological form.

Studies of different writing systems supported the controversial hypothesis that all reading necessarily activates the phonological form of a word before, or at the same time, as its meaning.

It views language processing as a series of competitions between lexical items, phonological forms, and syntactic patterns.

An extreme grammatical approach which is based exclusively on phonetic and phonological form.

Its function is to retrieve the phonological forms of the content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs) whose abstract codes were selected from the lexicon earlier on.