But this Cooper-prime character, with his blankness and his imitative bellow ("Hellooo-ooo-ooo," three syllables, already a meme), is also a figure of pathos and a mirror of indifference: he keeps repeating the one phrase that Jade left him with—"Call for help"—and not one of the many people he encounters in the casino, to whom he utters that seemingly unambiguous phrase, calls for help.
In a functional neuroimaging study, participants listened to spoken sentences that either contained a syntactically ambiguous or matched unambiguous phrase.
Behavioural studies have shown that listeners are sensitive to the presence of this type of syntactic ambiguity, and this is reflected in responses to the disambiguating word when it follows an ambiguous phrase compared with an unambiguous phrase (Tyler and Marslen-Wilson, 1977).
We noted earlier that language is potentially ambiguous at all levels of syntactic structure, and the same is true of semantic content, even for syntactically unambiguous words, phrases and sentences.
The phrasing must be fluent and unambiguous to the assessors in clinical practice [ 14] (steps 2, 3, 5, 6).
The literal meaning of the words seems clear enough, and the colloquial use of the phrase – defined as "American forces deployed to a foreign country" – is unambiguous.
Huddling with lawyers and aides, these same legislators sifted though obscure provisions of state and federal election laws today, exploring each and every clause, phrase, word and comma for a path to preserve what they asserted was a narrow but nonetheless unambiguous victory for Mr. Bush.
To the extent that they have disrupted syntactic function, there should be less difference between ambiguous versus unambiguous sentences, since they may not be able to achieve sufficient syntactic analysis of the 'verb + ing noun' phrase (in either condition) to detect whether it is ambiguous or not.
The translation is unambiguous.
