Syntax and Resolving Ambiguity

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All languages tend to present their unique rules and regular patterns upon which an individual should master. This places every language as objectively economical communication platform using similar forms of phrases to serve different purposes. Typically, Syntax illustrates the relationship within the structural units signaling the order of word as they constitute the phrases. Considering that English utilize the subject-verb-object order similar to other European languages, the difficulty experienced when constituting the order of words right leads to misunderstood statements (Macaulay 2006, 39). The explanation rests on the existence of syntax as the acceptable arrangement of words to reveal their interconnection in the sentence.

Every sentence reveals the existence surface and deep structure levels. The surface structure represents the spoken sentence while the deep structure reveals the underlying meaning of the phrase. It implies that one can express a single deep structure in several grammatical surface structures. For instance, a deep structure of the form ‘lady kisses gentleman' would assume several surface structures. They would include the lady was kissing the gentleman, the gentleman was kissed by the lady, and the lady kissed the gentleman.

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[...] In particular, the second sentence would suggest that rebels were fleeing the strategic town upon the increased attack by the Qaddafi forces. It would also mean the forces were fleeing from the strategic town. The different meanings arise when the individual words are invisibly placed into groups. Conclusion Resolving ambiguities mandates one to perform the replacement and movement tests. The former enables one to utilize pronouns while the latter requires moving the phrases in stages. This would allow the use of contextual information through the constraint and garden models to 5 resolve both ambiguities. [...]

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[...] However, sentence understanding through complex interactions between the sentence properties and reading characteristics to fix main-verb ambiguities Bibliography Macaulay, Ronald K S. The Social Art: Language and its Uses New York: Oxford University Press Whitaker, Harry A. Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language Boston: Elsevier Stevenson, S. A. (1994). A competitive attachment model for resolving syntactic ambiguities in natural language parsing. The neuroscience of language: On brain circuits of words and serial order. (2002). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. VON, G. E., Pisani, P. P., & GEORGIA INST FOR RESEARCH ATHENS. (1968). THE MULTISTORE SYSTEM. [...]

[...] Resolving Ambiguity The most important aspect of any language is deriving the intended meaning from utterances and written phrases. The feature allows linguistic communication to convey the envisioned message upon the common understanding of what is said. However, most speakers and writers assume that other speakers of the language interpret and understand the utterance or phrase the way they do (Macaulay 2006, 43). This subjects ambiguous phrases to misinterpretation especially when the context barely facilitates the interpretation, hence brewing confusion. [...]

[...] Syntax and Resolving Ambiguity 2 Syntax Takes Precedence over Semantics Introduction All languages tend to present their unique rules and regular patterns upon which an individual should master. This places every language as objectively economical communication platform using similar forms of phrases to serve different purposes. Typically, Syntax illustrates the relationship within the structural units signaling the order of word as they constitute the phrases. Considering that English utilize the subject-verb-object order similar to other European languages, the difficulty experienced when constituting the order of words right leads to misunderstood statements (Macaulay 2006, 39). [...]

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