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Discourse Function Ambiguity of Fragments: A Linguistic Puzzle
2015The puzzle we consider in this paper is that Merchant (2004) judges certain elliptical utterances in context to be ungrammatical, while Culicover and Jackendoff (2005) judge similar examples to be grammatical. The main difference between the examples appears to be that Merchant’s are introduced by no, while Culicover and Jackendoff’s are introduced by ...
Schmeh, Katharina +4 more
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Resolving Syntactic Ambiguities: Cross-Linguistic Differences?
2000The present study is an attempt to discover some of the factors which influence readers’ comprehension when faced with several possible interpretations of a sentence, and whether any universal account can be postulated for this process across, if not all, at least closely related languages.
Cheryl Frenck-Mestre, Joel Pynte
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How do speakers avoid ambiguous linguistic expressions?
Cognition, 2005Three experiments assessed how speakers avoid linguistically and nonlinguistically ambiguous expressions. Speakers described target objects (a flying mammal, bat) in contexts including foil objects that caused linguistic (a baseball bat) and nonlinguistic (a larger flying mammal) ambiguity.
Victor S, Ferreira +2 more
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Automatic resolution of linguistic ambiguities
1979The thesis describes the design, implementation and testing of a natural language analysis system capable of performing the task of generating paraphrases in a highly ambiguous environment. The emphasis is on incorporating strong semantic judgement in an augmented transition network grammar: the system provides a framework for examining the ...
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Studies in linguistic ambiguity and insecurity.
Urban health, 1981This article focuses on problems of cross-culture communication between patients and psychiatrists of varying socio-linguistic and foreign language backgrounds, in an in-patient psychiatric community facility. Issues of diagnosis, integration into the ward treatment program, and progress in the course of treatment can in some cases be traced to ...
M, Baxter, W, Bucci
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Resolving Linguistic Ambiguities by Visual Context
SN Computer Science, 2022Pavone A., Plebe A.
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2022
Ambiguity – an expression or utterance giving rise to at least two mutually exclusive interpretations – has been traditionally regarded as an ever-present, and therefore trivial, feature of EU law, alongside other forms of linguistic indeterminacy.
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Ambiguity – an expression or utterance giving rise to at least two mutually exclusive interpretations – has been traditionally regarded as an ever-present, and therefore trivial, feature of EU law, alongside other forms of linguistic indeterminacy.
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Comprehension of Linguistic Ambiguity and Development of Classification
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1976This study assessed comprehension of structurally related ambiguous sentences and classification problems by children in Grades K through 5. Each of three ambiguous-sentence tasks and three classification tasks was based on one of the principles of substitution, grouping, and logical relations.
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Panic buying: The effect of thinking style and situational ambiguity
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2021Halimin Herjanto +2 more
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Asset pricing and ambiguity: Empirical evidence
Journal of Financial Economics, 2018Yehuda Izhakian
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