Note the general syntactic ambiguity of a parenthetical expression, parenthesized arguments to a function and the parentheses around the formal parameters in a function definition.
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He capsulized the challenges of machine translation with an example of syntactic ambiguity " Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana ".
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In perhaps the earliest use of logic to model law in AI and Law, Layman Allen advocated the use of propositional logic to resolve such syntactic ambiguities in a series of papers.
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Syntactic ambiguity arises not from the range of meanings of single words, but from the relationship between the words and clauses of a sentence, and the sentence structure underlying the word order therein.
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In Part I of this lecture, Bernstein names three different types of musical ambiguity : ( 1 ) phonological ambiguity, or uncertainty of the key, ( 2 ) syntactic ambiguity, or uncertainty of meter, and ( 3 ) semantic ambiguity, or uncertainty of the meaning.
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:: I don't speak Finnish, but I imagine this arises from syntactic ambiguity : the fact that sometimes an adverbial clause can be interpreted as'modifying'several different parts of the sentence, other than just the one that was intended . contribs 20 : 02, 23 September 2009 ( UTC)
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In this clause the adverbial, " helehg�jgeer "'without saying [ so ]'must precede the predicate's complement, " ��nijg "'it-' in order to avoid syntactic ambiguity, since " helehg�jgeer " is itself derived from a verb and hence an " ��nijg " preceding it could be construed as its complement.
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For critical stimuli, Tanenhaus used phrases that contained syntactic ambiguities, such as " Put the apple on the towel in the box, " where the prepositional phrase " on the towel " is initially ambiguous between being a modifier ( indicating which apple ) or a goal ( indicating where to put the apple ) . " Put the apple that's on the towel in the box " served as the control condition because " that's " signals that " on the towel " is unambiguously a modifier.
