[1] There are several kinds of juncture, the most widely used typology of which is: Other less common typologies exist,[2] such as the division (favoured by American Structuralist linguists in the middle twentieth century) into plus, single bar, double bar, and double cross junctures, denoted /+/, /|/, /||/, and /#/ respectively.
A word boundary preceded or followed by a syllable break is called an external open juncture.
In recreational linguistics, various types of junctures of are often used and played with in word games, in order to create or emphasize homophonic effects in pairs of same-sounding phrases.
When pronounced without a pause between words (internal open juncture), phrases which differ in meaning and spelling may share a similar pronunciation.
Since the term oronym was already well established in linguistics as an onomastic designation for a class of toponymic features (names of mountains, hills, etc.