According to research by Collins and Quillian, the statement "Siamese cats have blue eyes" will be verified: faster than "Siamese cats give birth to live young. Collins and Quillian's hierarchical network model would predict that which of the following statements would take the LONGEST time to verify?
Swinney's research suggests that when we encounter a lexically ambiguous word, we process both meanings at first, then suppress the inappropriate meaning. Which of the following does NOT make a passage of text easier to comprehend, according to research?
Swinney's research suggests that when we encounter a lexically ambiguous word, we process both meanings at first, then suppress the inappropriate meaning. Which of the following does NOT make a passage of text easier to comprehend, according to research? providing a relevant context after the passage has been read
Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns They were speaking ambiguities So far we’ve covered three of the four different categories of ambiguities. We have looked at phonological, scope and punctuation ambiguities. Today we examine the last category. Syntactic Ambiguities are sentences in which it is unclear who refers to what. What is the modifier modifying? There are actually two types of ...
However, the statement that semantic ambiguity must always be due to syntactic ambiguity is certainly untrue: The two different readings of "He's mad" that TKR provides in their comment are due to the semantic ambiguity of the lexical item "mad" - this is called lexical ambiguity - while the syntactic structure is completely identical.
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Meanwhile, however, it's very easy to have semantic ambiguity without syntactic ambiguity thanks to polysemy. Similar to TKR's suggestion in a comment:
If you want, there could be scenarios where a syntactic ambiguity makes no difference in meaning, if you think of the syntactically ambiguous expression