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| l | Lexical ambiguity |
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| l | “the back
of the room” vs. “back up your files” |
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| l | “In the interest
of stimulating the economy, the |
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lowered the interest rate.” |
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| l | Syntactic
ambiguity (structural ambiguity) |
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| l | “I smelled a
wumpus in 2,2” |
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| l | Semantic
ambiguity |
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| l | “the IBM lecture” |
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| l | Pragmatic
ambiguity |
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| l | “I’ll meet you
next Friday” |
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