soundidentical
Soundidentical is a linguistic term used to describe a pair or set of linguistic items that share identical phonetic realization in a given dialect or speech context. In other words, their surface pronunciation is indistinguishable to a listener under normal conditions, though their meanings or spellings may differ.
In phonology and phonetics, soundidentical is closely related to homophones; however, the emphasis is on the
Common examples include knight and night, or flower and flour in many dialects, where the two forms
Applications of the concept appear in fields such as corpus linguistics, speech technology, and linguistic analysis.
Notes and limitations: the term is descriptive and often informal, reflecting perceptual identity of sound in