| 单词 | lexical ambiguity |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslexical ambiguity lexical ambiguity n. ambiguity arising from homonymy rather than from grammatical structure (as between brake ‘restrainer’ and brake ‘fence’, or well noun and well adverb); contr. with structural ambiguity n. at structural adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > homonymy > [noun] > ambiguity arising from lexical ambiguity1970 1956 Amer. Speech 31 102 The passage remains totally ambiguous; that is, its ambiguity is both structural and lexical.] 1970 F. Brengelman Eng. Lang. vi. 71 For example, the structural and lexical ambiguity which we can tolerate in speech because we have a whole array of supplementary signalling devices—intonation, gestures, facial expressions, the physical context—cannot be tolerated in writing. 1980 M. S. Seidenberg et al. Time-Course of Lexical Ambiguity Resolution in Context (ERIC Doc. 184–092) (microfiche) 2 Lexical ambiguity is one of the most extensively researched topics in the study of language composition. < as lemmas |
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