Research on the processing of lexical ambiguity has produced robust evidence that ambiguous words are processed differently from unambiguous ones.
Factors such as the timing desynchronization between the prime and the target, ambiguity types, word lengths, and the syntactic categories of the ambiguous words, however, varied across studies.
"Ambiguous words often lead to ludicrous and puzzling headline statements," Grant Milnor Hyde wrote in his 1915 manual, "Newspaper Editing".
But there is a danger: remember the oracle at Delphi, whose ambiguous words could be open to dangerous misinterpretation?
The discussion cannot be comprehensible when the individuals all have a different concept of the understanding of those ambiguous words.
However, his ambiguous words were interpreted by many observers to mean the door had not been shut completely on negotiations.
After the disaster, they were among the first to demand a greater sense of crisis even as the government was offering soothingly ambiguous words about there being "no immediate health impact".
Pictures without words are often ambiguous; words without pictures, lame.' He laid the lie that 'a picture is worth a thousand words' by insisting that without the added context, an image is open to misinterpretation, even to deliberate misuse.
The ambiguous words are in bold face.
If we reply on identical orthography, then the ambiguous words are called HOMOGRAPHS.
In our work, semi-automatic translation has been applied where all ambiguous words were translated manually.
