TYPES OF LINGUISTIC AMBIGUITY

Types of Ambiguity

Linguistic Adaptations for Resolving Ambiguity

We motivate a model of human parsing and ambiguity resolution on the basis of psycholinguistic and typological data. Analysis of spoken and written corpora suggests that ambiguity is a factor in the choice of relativization strategy for English and supports the model’s predictions. Within an evolutionary account of language, we predict that languages will adapt over time so that prosodic and sy...

The Linguistic Analysis of Sound Ambiguity and Meaning Ambiguity

This thesis will talk about ambiguity by classifying it into sound ambiguity and meaning ambiguity. In the first part, the author will discuss the theories in ambiguity namely the Q-and R-principle and IC-analysis which are the most basic and important in the analysis of ambiguity. In the following part, the author will analyze the sound ambiguity and meaning ambiguity in detail. Polysemy and h...

Logical types and linguistic types

One of the primary aims of linguistic semantics is to translate the expressions of natural language into formulas of some logical calculus. These formulas, in turn, can be interpreted in the appropriate models, and semantic notions like truth, entailment, etc. can be formally defined in the usual manner. In addition to the well-known theoretical advantages of such an intermediate logical form, ...

Selected Types of Pg-Ambiguity

The objective of the present paper is to analyse syntactic ambiguity of prepositional groups (Pg’s) within the background of dependency oriented Functional Generative Description (FGD). Several basic types of Pg-ambiguity are presented and the possibilities of searching for their occurrences in the Prague Dependency Tree Bank (PDT) is illustrated. Criteria for automatic Pg-ambiguity detection a...