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1 Prosodic Description of Scopally Ambiguous Sentences in Russian
"... Quantifier Scope has received wide attention in the linguistics literature since the seminal works by Chomsky (1976), May (1977, 1985) and others. Certain syntactic constructions such as Antecedent Contained Deletion and Inverse Linking have received a natural explanation with the postulation of cov ..."
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and fairly well understood surprisingly little is known about the prosody of scopally ambiguous sentences cross-linguistically. The present research is the first attempt to fill this gap in one language, Russian. The paper discusses the results of a production experiment undertaken in the summer of 2008
Semantic-Head Based Resolution of Scopal Ambiguities
, 1998
"... We introduce an algorithm for scope resolution in underspecified semantic representations. Scope pref-erences are suggested on the basis of semantic argu-ment structure. The major novelty of this approach is that, while maintaining an (scopally) underspec-ified semantic representation, we at the sam ..."
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We introduce an algorithm for scope resolution in underspecified semantic representations. Scope pref-erences are suggested on the basis of semantic argu-ment structure. The major novelty of this approach is that, while maintaining an (scopally) underspec-ified semantic representation, we
Scopal ambiguity preferences in German negated clauses
"... When following a negated matrix clause, adverbial clauses (ACs) like “because it was paid very well ” in (1) can be interpreted as residing within the scope of the negation (1b), or outside of it (1). (1) a. Peter did not quit his job because it was paid very well b. Peter did not quit his job becau ..."
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will present evidence on German equivalents of (1a,b), varying the order of the negative and the verb (Experiment I), the context in which the ambiguity appears (Experiment II), and the position of the adverbial in relation to the clause boundary where the negation of the main verb is restricted or even
Semantic Ambiguity and Perceived Ambiguity
- Semantic Ambiguity and Underspecification
, 1994
"... I explore some of the issues that arise when trying to establish a connection between the underspecification hypothesis pursued in the NLP literature and work on ambiguity in semantics and in the psychological literature. A theory of underspecification is developed `from the first principles&apo ..."
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ambiguity: lexical ambiguity, scopal ambiguity, and referential ambiguity. The expressions of this language denote sets of senses. A formalization of defeasible reasoning with underspecified representations is presented, based on Default Logic. Some issues to be confronted by such a formalization
Categorical Ambiguity of Possessives and Adjectives ∗
"... This paper examines categorical, structural and semantic ambiguities of prenominal possessives and adjectives. The first part of this paper discusses the following ambiguities of adjectives and possessives and present context-free grammars: when two adjectives modify a noun, the second adjective can ..."
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Natural language can be interpreted ambiguously. For example, an English word bank is polysemous so that I am going to a bank can be understood either that the speaker is going to Bank of America or to a riverside. In addition to such lexical ambiguity, natural language contains scopal ambiguity
Predicate Logic Unplugged
- In Proceedings of the 10th Amsterdam Colloquium
, 1995
"... this paper we describe the syntax and semantics of a description language for underspecified semantic representations. This concept is discussed in general and in particular applied to Predicate Logic and Discourse Representation Theory. The reason for exploring underspecified representations as sui ..."
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of this problem, scopal ambiguities in natural language expressions, is discussed in section 2. The core of the paper presents Hole Semantics. This is a general proposal for a framework, in principle suitable for any logic, where underspecified representations play a central role. There is a clear separation
Quantification Scope Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Persian
"... This study investigates the interpretation of scopally ambiguous sentences containing noun phrases with double quantified constituents from a processing perspective. The questions this study tried to answer were: whether or not the preferred interpretation for doubly quantified ambiguous sentences i ..."
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This study investigates the interpretation of scopally ambiguous sentences containing noun phrases with double quantified constituents from a processing perspective. The questions this study tried to answer were: whether or not the preferred interpretation for doubly quantified ambiguous sentences
The Small Reading of the Scalar Particle Mo in Japanese and Negative Polarity ‹
"... Abstract. The scalar particle mo in Japanese gives rise to ambiguity in negative contexts. In this paper we argue that the ambiguity cannot be accounted for as a scopal ambiguity, and propose a lexical ambiguity account. In particular, we observe that the distribution of the small reading of mo is l ..."
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Abstract. The scalar particle mo in Japanese gives rise to ambiguity in negative contexts. In this paper we argue that the ambiguity cannot be accounted for as a scopal ambiguity, and propose a lexical ambiguity account. In particular, we observe that the distribution of the small reading of mo
Temporal Interpretation of Modals - Modals for the Present and for the Past
- The Construction of Meaning
, 2001
"... This paper provides a uniform analysis of the temporal interpretation of epistemic and metaphysical modals referring to the present, the past, or the future. It argues for a decompositional analysis of modals referring to the past, attributes the ambiguity of such modals to scopal ambiguity, and ..."
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This paper provides a uniform analysis of the temporal interpretation of epistemic and metaphysical modals referring to the present, the past, or the future. It argues for a decompositional analysis of modals referring to the past, attributes the ambiguity of such modals to scopal ambiguity
Using Underspecification in Interactive Translation Systems
, 1998
"... Ambiguities concerning for example quantifier scope and anaphoric reference are known to be problematic for language processing systems. Resolving the ambiguities might lead to the well known combinatorial explosion puzzle. In applications like transfer-based machine translation, resolution of scope ..."
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of scope can be avoided if the translation takes place at a semantic representational level that encodes scopal ambiguites: the idea is to have a common representation for all of the possible interpretations of an ambiguous expression, as in [1]. Scopal ambiguities in the source language can
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