Sentence examples for sensitivity to ambiguity from inspiring English sources

Is a sensitivity to ambiguity in general more prevalent now, we wondered, than in the 1960s when Bob and I were young?

Also, this sensitivity to ambiguity could make women more risk averse than men.

We designed the model to maximize sensitivity to ambiguity by testing only the period during the sentence at which the effects of ambiguity would occur i.e. in the second half of the sentence following the ambiguous phrase.

In line with its sensitivity to ambiguity, the anteromedial prefrontal cortex may contribute to the subsequent "second take" processing, which, for jokes, presumably reflects detection of a clever "twist" contained in the funny punch lines.

It is sensitive to ambiguities.

For the acceptability judgement task, we found that increasing sensitivity to syntactic ambiguity (i.e. more unacceptable judgements in ambiguous compared with unambiguous sentences) was associated with increasing activity primarily in left BA 45 (extending into BA 47) and right anterior superior temporal gyrus and insula (Table 5 and Fig. 4A).

Our goal in the present experiments was to study whether rats display in their behavior sensitivity to this ambiguity.

As suggested by the analyses of the complete data set, missing data and sensitivity to alignment ambiguity coupled with the limited taxon sampling of the reduced data set probably account respectively for the instability in the position of P. exempla and the placement of the immediate outgroup.

While EEG studies have documented a remarkably early sensitivity to referential ambiguity ("NRef" effect; Van Berkum et al. 1999; Van Berkum et al. 2003), it remains unclear whether such effects can be modulated by conversational memory or by beliefs about common ground, as participants in these studies were presented with prepared text or speech in social isolation.

Shakespeare enters the argument as the supreme example of a poet who discovers, through sensitivity to the ambiguities of language, how to peer without flinching into the Heideggerian abyss.

We then interrogated these regions of interest for their sensitivity to content type, ambiguity, and the interaction between these 2 factors.