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 ...
This chapter focuses on two types of ambiguity: lexical and syntactic ambiguity. The two kinds of ambiguity can interact-for example, adopting noun vs. verb interpretation of man affects how one interprets the syntactic structure of a se... MC Macdonald,MS Seidenberg - Elsevier Inc. 被引量:...
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 ...
Different mechanism for each type of ambiguity Lexical Ambiguity Representations are created and stored All senses are activated in parallel until most probable one is chosen Sytactic Ambiguity Parses are constructed, not stored There is only one serial parse Lexical and Semantic Ambiguity The Delay ...
Pre-lexical vs. post-lexical processing. A line of studies tested whether syntactic priming arises at the pre- or post-lexical level of word processing (Carello et al., 1988; Seidenberg et al., 1984). The distinction between pre-lexical and post-lexical levels refers to whether the prime ...
Interestingly, the argument structure related negativity is present between 300 and 500 msec, that is, the time domain in which the lexical-semantic ERP component is found. This is not surprising, given that the availability of the verb argument structure information requires full access to the ve...
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). Theories and implications of lexical ambiguity resolution
Syntactic priming and the lexicalist approach to syntactic ambiguity resolutionLee, MEllis, N
Bucaria, C.: Lexical and syntactic ambiguity as a source of humor. Humor 17, 3 (2004)Bucaria, Chiara. 2004. Lexical and syntactic ambiguity as a source of humor: The case of newspaper headlines. Humor 17: 279-309.BUCARIA, C. : « Lexical and syntactic ambiguity as a source of ...
The use of two relevant sources of information---frequency and contextual plausibility---during on-line lexical and syntactic ambiguity resolution was examined as a function of verbal working memory capacity in four self-paced reading experiments. Experiment 1 demonstrated that lexical ambiguity ...