Management and Organizational Studies 4410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Syntactic Ambiguity, Noun Phrase, Transformational Grammar

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 4410A/B
• Professor: Kelly Olson

Document Summary

Noun phrase has been moved, the sentence is technically the same: 216-218, diferent informaion. Syntacic ambiguity ( an anique dresser for a man with thick legs and large drawers) Syntacic analysis representaion of those words in a sentence. Not the same as semanics (semanics needs to make sense, syntacic doesn"t) These stages occur in that order botom-up . Online parsing (process before sentence is inished, because of short term memory interference) and oline parsing (process ater listening to the enire sentence) Garden path sentence lead down the garden path, lead astray. Temporary ambiguity (the horse raced past the barn fell) Homophonous lots of words with diferent meanings sound the same. Garden path sentences ambiguous because the iniial parse of the sentences is incorrect. Bobby saw a bug in the tree biased, go with the most frequent use (bug insect vs. bug hearing device) Equibiased (pitcher of beer vs. baseball pitcher, equally as likely)