Sentence examples for syntactic ambiguity from inspiring English sources

Speakers reliably produced disambiguating cues to syntactic ambiguity whether the situation was ambiguous or not.

Patients showing increased activation here were also more sensitive to the presence of a syntactic ambiguity with greater numbers of unacceptable judgements to ambiguous compared with unambiguous sentences.

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).

Ambiguity of this kind is referred to as syntactic ambiguity.

Not all syntactic ambiguity is satisfactorily accounted for in terms of constituent structure.

What was at worst a syntactic ambiguity on Palin's part during her bus tour last week became another instance of critics accusing her of historical ignorance, and her supporters just as insistently defending her from error – a battle that spilled over onto the historical event's Wikipedia entry.

Here are some examples of purportedly syntactic ambiguities.

As mentioned above, Pietroski and Hornstein (2002) make a similar point regarding syntactic ambiguities.

Evidence has been mixed on whether speakers spontaneously and reliably produce prosodic cues that resolve syntactic ambiguities.

The puzzling aspect of these sophisms is variously caused by semantic or syntactic ambiguities involved in certain logical or "syncategorematic" words such as "all", "every", "or", "if…then", "and", "not", "begins", "ceases", "except", "necessary", "possible", etc.

Such results also would be consistent with reports of P600s to parsing ambiguities between phrasal and sentence-level conjunctions in sentences (Brown & Hagoort, 2000; Brown et al., 2000), and both LAN and P600s to conjunctions in the context of ungrammatical or nonpreferred grammatical continuations of syntactic ambiguities (Kaan & Swaab, 2003).