Search lexical ambiguity in sentence comprehension
Keywords: lexical ambiguity, syntactic ambiguity, humor Introduction . These prior studies found that ambiguity is a source which is often used to create humor. There are two types of ambiguity commonly used as the source of humors, i.e. lexical and syntactic ambiguity. The former one refers to ambiguity conveyed
ambiguity. 5.1.2 Lexical Ambiguity Lexical ambiguity is the simplest and the most pervasive type of ambiguity. It occurs when a single lexical item has more than one meaning. For example, in a sentence like "John found a bat", the word "bat" is lexically ambiguous as it refer s to "an animal" or "a stick used for hitting the ball in some games .
3.1 The Types of Lexical Ambiguity The researcher identified the types of lexical ambiguity from the data and found 2 types based on types of lexical ambiguity framework used by Murphy (2010) which are absolute homonymy and polysemy. The researcher found 38 utterances which were lexically ambiguous. 3.1.1 Absolute
lexical ambiguity on the movie based on the theory. 4.1 Findings The finding of this study is divided into two parts based on the research problems. The first partis about lexical ambiguity that found in Zootopia movie. In this part the writer also analyzes the types of lexical ambiguity in the words that categorize as lexical ambiguity.
Resolving ambiguity through lexical asso- ciations Whittemore et al. (1990) found lexical preferences to be the key to resolving attachment ambiguity. Similarly, Taraban and McClelland found lexical content was key in explaining people's behavior. Various previous propos- als for guiding attachment disambiguation by the lexical
A. Use of Ambiguity Ambiguity is widely used as a way to produce a humorous effect both in English and Chinese humor because ambiguity can make a word or sentence understood more than one level of meaning. In this part, two kinds of ambiguity will be analyzed, including phonological ambiguity and lexical ambiguity. 1.
ambiguity. This paper also tackles the notion of ambiguity under the umbrella of Empson's (1949) and Crystal (1988). There are two types of ambiguity identified and they are as follows: a. Syntactic or structural ambiguity generating structure of a word in a sentence is unclear. b. Lexical or semantic ambiguity generating when a word has
There are three types of ambiguities: structural ambiguity lexical ambiguity and semantic ambiguity. 2.1.1. Lexical Ambiguity The Words and phrases in one language often have multiple meaning in another language. . be found for a particular word or phrase of one language in another. Consider the sentence,
ambiguity and then describing the causes and the ways to disambiguate the ambiguous sentences by using different ways from some linguists. The finding shows that the writer finds lexical ambiguity (23,8%) and structural or syntactic ambiguity (76,2%). Lexical ambiguity divided into some part of speech;
RESOLVING LEXICAL AMBIGUITY IN A DETERMINISTIC PARSER Robert Milne Intelligent Applications 10 Charlotte Square Edinburgh EH2 4DR Scotland Lexical ambiguity and especially part-of-speech ambiguity is the source of much non-determinism in . found to be very effective for the following reason. Each word has all the possible relevant features .
causative constructions found in languages viz. non-lexical and lexical. The non-lexical causative, . The non-lexical causative shows ambiguity when used with adverbs Downloaded by [Kenyatta University] at 00:03 08 March 2016 . 388 but the lexical causative does not have this ambiguity (Cooper, 1976:323). To illustrate,
This research focuses on the case of ambiguity found in Hooray textbook which is used by the sixth grade of elementary school students. The research is aimed at analyzing: 1) the types of ambiguity found in Hooray textbook, 2) the . lexical ambiguity (29, 7%), 94 referential ambiguity (53, 7%) and 29 surface .