In linguistics, citation form is the way a word is prononunced when it is spoken carefully and in isolation, such as when reading a list of words. The pronunciations given for words in most dictionaries are citation forms. Typically the words that are most different in the usual forms than in their citation forms are function words, like articles and prepositions. For example, the citation form of the word for is a homophone with the word four and fore, but when spoken at normal speed in a sentence, such as in the phrase one for you and two for me, the word will be pronounced much closer to the word fur or the second syllable of sofa, with a reduced vowel. Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... Manual of Specialised Lexicography, Henning Bergenholtz/Sven Tarp (eds. ... Function words are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. ... In grammar, a preposition is a word that establishes a relationship between an object (usually a noun phrase) and some other part of the sentence, often expressing a location in place or time. ... Homonyms (in Greek homoios = identical and onoma = name) are words which have the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...