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Demonstrations of ambiguity between alternative syntactic structures underlying a sentence. I made her duck. [9] [10] One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. [11] Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Eats shoots and leaves
Syntactic ambiguity, also known as structural ambiguity, [1] amphiboly, or amphibology, is characterized by the potential for a sentence to yield multiple interpretations due to its ambiguous syntax. This form of ambiguity is not derived from the varied meanings of individual words but rather from the relationships among words and clauses ...
The sentence "time flies like an arrow" is in fact often used to illustrate syntactic ambiguity. [1] Modern English speakers understand the sentence to unambiguously mean "Time passes fast, as fast as an arrow travels". But the sentence is syntactically ambiguous and alternatively could be interpreted as meaning, for example: [2]
Such examples of initial ambiguity resulting from a "reduced relative with [a] potentially intransitive verb" ("The horse raced in the barn fell.") can be contrasted with the lack of ambiguity for a non-reduced relative ("The horse that was raced in the barn fell.") or with a reduced relative with an unambiguously transitive verb ("The horse ...
The ambiguity ends at was enlightening, which determines that the second alternative is correct. When readers process a local ambiguity, they settle on one of the possible interpretations immediately without waiting to hear or read more words that might help decide which interpretation is correct (the behaviour is called incremental processing ...
Only rewriting the sentence, or placing appropriate punctuation can resolve a syntactic ambiguity. [5] For the notion of, and theoretic results about, syntactic ambiguity in artificial, formal languages (such as computer programming languages), see Ambiguous grammar. Usually, semantic and syntactic ambiguity go hand in hand.
In general, Americans tend to load up on protein at the end of the day with dinner. But if you’re trying to lose weight, you’ll want to optimize your breakfast’s staying power by including ...
3 Syntactic ambiguity? 2 comments. 4 Not Syntactically Ambiguous. 2 comments. 5 Fit fit fits fit ski? 1 comment. 6 All sentences are linguistic examples. 2 comments.