PSY374H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Syntactic Ambiguity, Sentence Processing, Premium Bond
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Tues 4-5 and friday 10 -11 - office hours. Research report: 5 possible topics, then something more specific -w-in those area. Problem: look up meaning of individual words. Identify how words are related to 1-another using syntactic rules of your language. Big problem: lexical ambiguity: bank (plane turning or side a river), lot (land, bunch of), drink (verb or noun), local (where), a/the (more than one things/one/from a category). Not possible to lookup a word and say that"s what it means: syntactic ambiguity: group in diff ways to arrive at diff conclusion. Ex: old english professor , stolen painting found by tree , killer sentenced to die for 2nd time in 10 years , babies fly best at night . Phrase doesn"t give a clue to what it"s referring to. Ambiguity is not found only in elliptical style of headlines. The cop watches the man with the binoculars -> who had the binoculars, the cop or man.
