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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Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana (category Ambiguity)
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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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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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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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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Parse tree (redirect from Syntactic tree diagram)
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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and end Syntactic disambiguation, the problem of resolving syntactic ambiguity Ambiguity (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Disambiguation...
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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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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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Ibis redibis nunquam per bella peribis (category Ambiguity)
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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exception Ambiguity Accent False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable...
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Informal fallacy (section Fallacies of ambiguity)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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