Self-study topic English words Task Read the article and write a summary using around 150 words (and 6-8 sentences) in length

Polysemy is the term that refers to a word. It has a set of different meanings which are related.
For the example of polysemy: Word A set of different meanings 1. Back Human back The back of a chair The back of a sofa The back of a knife
	Homonymy...	Homonymy is the term that refers to one form, which is the same in both written and spoken with two or more unrelated meanings.	For the example of homonymy: bank (of a river/ of a financial institution), pupil (student/in the eye), mole (an animal/a small dark mark on the skin/ a stone wall built in the sea), sole (of the shoes/fish), leaf (of a tree/of a book)

Summary
We can study the structure of language in a variety of ways. For example, we can study classes of words (parts of speech), meanings of words, with or without considering changes of meaning (semantics), how words are organised in relation to each other and in larger constructions (syntax), how words are formed from smaller meaningful units (morphology), the sounds of words (perception and pronunciation or articulation), and how they form patterns of knowledge in the speaker's mind (phonetics and phonology) and how standardized written forms represent words (orthography). Since this website is primarily devoted to the exploration of English throught its words, the focus in this website is on morphology (word stucture) and other aspects of words, such as etymology, lexical semantic change, word usage, lexical types of words, and words marking specific linguistic varieties. Phonetics All words are, at the their most basic, collections of different sounds. Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. Sounds are generally categorized by place of articulation, method of articulation, and voicing. While these individual sounds are the most basic elements of language, they do not have meaning in of themselves (apart from some sounds which can be considered sound symbolic).