"homoiophone" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1886: Stephen Denison Peet [ed.], The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, volume 8, page 349 (Jameson & Morse)",
          "text": "This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones in a language, of words with the same or similar sounds, but with diverse significations."
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          "ref": "1893: Johan Harold Josua Lindahl, Description of a Skull of Megalonyx Leidyi, page 56 (American Philosophical Society)",
          "text": "This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones, that is, of words with different meanings but the same or nearly the same sound."
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          "ref": "1911, July 6ᵗʰ: Robert Seymour Bridges, Correspondence of Robert Bridges and Henry Bradley, 1900–1923, page 81 (The Clarendon Press)",
          "text": "Have you any idea as to what ought to be done with what I believe you pepel call homophones or homoiophones. I hope that is not the right name for them. But is it not foolish to have an educated nation that refuses to readjust such inconveniences?"
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          "ref": "1924, American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 44, page 28",
          "text": "By way of bringing this intricate and tedious dissertation to an end, allow me to recite a short specimen of the thing itself — a Siamese “jaw-breaker” which, for ingenious bewilderment by means of homoiophones, I am sure does not fall behind our “Theophilus Thistle the Thistle-sifter,” while in coloratura of intonation it certainly leaves that far behind.",
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          "ref": "1987, Alan Allport, editor, Language Perception and Production: Relationships Between Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing, Academic Press, page 237",
          "text": "Another explanation relates to the actual use of homophony-generating rules; perhaps pseudohomophones are not homophones but rather ‘homoiophones’, that is, phonologically similar but not exactly equal to their word mates.",
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      "enpr": "hŏmoiʹəfōn",
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