• Syntactic ambiguity, also known as structural ambiguity, amphiboly, or amphibology, is characterized by the potential for a sentence to yield multiple...
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    ". It is more common that a syntactically unambiguous phrase has a semantic ambiguity; for example, the lexical ambiguity in "Your boss is a funny man"...
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  • arms [weapons] body [group of people]. Demonstrations of ambiguity between alternative syntactic structures underlying a sentence. I made her duck. One...
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    is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence or syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example of punning, double entendre, and...
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  • nondeterministic grammars Chart parser, another type of parser for ambiguous grammars Syntactic ambiguity The following example uses Pascal syntax. Willem J. M. Levelt...
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  • Parsing (redirect from Syntactic Analysis)
    generate a parse forest or list of parse trees from a string that is syntactically ambiguous. The term is also used in psycholinguistics when describing language...
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  • Equivocation (redirect from Ambiguous terms)
    explosion: One of the fundamental laws in logic Syntactic ambiguity, Amphiboly, Amphibology: Ambiguity of a sentence by its grammatical structure When...
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  • morieris) is a Latin phrase, often used to illustrate the meaning of syntactic ambiguity to students of either Latin or linguistics. Traditionally, it is...
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    exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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  • and end Syntactic disambiguation, the problem of resolving syntactic ambiguity Ambiguity (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Disambiguation...
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  • attributes of the person (solutio ad hominem) but to address the original ambiguity. Many examples of ancient non-fallacious ad hominem arguments are preserved...
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    concrete syntax tree) is an ordered, rooted tree that represents the syntactic structure of a string according to some context-free grammar. The term...
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  • resolves some semantic ambiguity) is a related problem, and often a prerequisite for or a subproblem of syntactic parsing. Syntactic parses can be used for...
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  • Most vexing parse (category Ambiguity)
    The most vexing parse is a counterintuitive form of syntactic ambiguity resolution in the C++ programming language. In certain situations, the C++ grammar...
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  • meaning in a statement without specifying which meaning is intended. Ambiguous middle term – using a middle term with multiple meanings. Definitional...
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  • Morpheme (redirect from Morpho-syntactic)
    syntax-to-semantics mapping Leaves in syntactic trees spell out morphemes: distributed morphology – leaves are morphemes Branches in syntactic trees spell out morphemes:...
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  • exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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  • has been given its own name: the fallacy of the ambiguous middle. An argument that commits the ambiguous middle fallacy blurs the line between formal and...
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    exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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    Syntactic Structures is a seminal work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. A short monograph of about a hundred...
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  • is crossed. Lexical ambiguity is a subtype of semantic ambiguity where a word or morpheme is ambiguous. When a lexical ambiguity results from a single...
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    involves ambiguity in meaning, but this ambiguity arises not on the level of individual terms but on the level of the sentence as a whole due to syntactic ambiguity...
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  • exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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  • exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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  • exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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  • Garden-path sentence (category Ambiguity)
    which is much more complex to technically classify Paraprosdokian Syntactic ambiguity Synchysis Branch predictor List of linguistic example sentences Natural...
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  • exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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  • exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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  • exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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