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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unpleasant long stories about hard yarn. 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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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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nondeterministic grammars Chart parser, another type of parser for ambiguous grammars Syntactic ambiguity Willem J. M. Levelt (2008). An Introduction to the Theory...
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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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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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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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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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