Yet he has already explained that two of the quartet are dead, and as if suddenly realising this himself, he readjusts and the sentence resolves itself in a "possible tense", the past conditional: "... you would have said that, as human affairs go, we were an extraordinarily safe castle".
Research with adults has shown that ambiguous spoken sentences are resolved efficiently, exploiting multiple cues including referential context to select the intended meaning.
It was almost as if with that one sentence he had resolved the India-Pakistan situation in his head.
How lexical ambiguity is resolved in sentences is of significant theoretical importance for sentence processing research as it sheds light on the relation between lexical processing and discourse processing.
The problem of negative singular existentials is thereby resolved because sentences containing names which appear to be about nonexistent objects are paraphrased in terms of sentences involving general terms, quantifiers and uniqueness conditions.
"We sit together and it gets resolved by a sentence that we reach an agreement on".
Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, said the office would examine the case files to determine why the earlier assault case was resolved with a sentence of probation.
Research examining the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in the resolution of ambiguity have sought to systematically manipulate the point in a spoken sentence where ambiguous material is resolved (Rodd et al. 2012).
Some have to do with getting out: When will I be released, when will I speak to a lawyer, when will I see a judge, how will my case be resolved, will I be sentenced to prison time?
We emphasize that dictionary-based methods for sentiment analysis usually perform worse than random on individual sentences [20, 21], and although this issue can be resolved by using a rolling average of sentences scores, it begets a basic misunderstanding of similar efforts [12].
