Taken for granted, ambiguous sentences and words can be quite often interpreted in an accurate way when they are used in reality; moreover, writers and speakers use this characteristic of ambiguity to make an artistic impact on their language.Both syntactic and lexical ambiguity, are ruled by ...
内容提示: Lexical and syntactic ambiguity as a sourceof humor: The case of newspaper headlinesCHIARA BUCARIAAbstractThe paper analyzes some forms of linguistic ambiguity in English in aspecific register, i.e. newspaper headlines. In particular, the focus of theresearch is on examples of lexical ...
The linguistic phenomena that contribute to create this kind of semantic confusion in headlines will be analyzed and divided into the three main categories of lexical, syntactic, and phonological ambiguity, and examples from the corpus will be discussed for each category. The main results of the ...
syntactic interpretation is activated I told the girl that the boy met the story While Mary was mending the sock fell on the floor Approach 2: Different mechanism for each type of ambiguity Lexical Ambiguity Representations are created and stored All senses are activated in parallel until most ...
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This strategy, which can discover lexical ambiguity, is based in part on a generalization of the idea of sentential minimal pairs. As a result, it ... TA Cartwright,MR Brent - 《Cognition》 被引量: 264发表: 1997年 Context effects in syntactic ambiguity resolution: Discourse and semantic infl...
Syntactic ambiguity When a sentence has more than one syntactic interpretation: 1. Main verb (MV) vs. reduced relative clause (RRC): - MV: The horse raced past the barn. - RRC: The horse raced past the barn fell. ("that" can be optionally omitted). ...
These ambiguity effects, which resulted from differences in difficulty with meaning resolution, were not found when the ambiguity crossed syntactic categories. These data indicate that, in the absence of syntactic ambiguity, syntactic-category information mediates the semantic-resolution process....
Note. With the introduction of XML literal expressions in version 9.0 of the language, Visual Basic no longer has a distinct lexical grammar in the sense that Visual Basic code can be tokenized without regard to the syntactic context. This is due to the fact that XML and Visual Basic have ...
Memory & Cognition 2003, 31 (8), 1302-1315 Situation-evoking stimuli, domain of reference, and the incremental interpretation of lexical ambiguity HOANG VU Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California and GEORGE KELLAS, ERIC PETERSEN, and KIM METCALF University of Kansas, Lawrence, ...