PLIC55H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Syntactic Ambiguity, Sentence Processing, Polysemy
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March 6, 2018: syntactic ambiguity (sentence structure) and semantic ambiguity (word level) exist, these can be combined with other aspects of lang (ex. Morphology) to generate other types of ambiguity: ambiguity is not monolithic; it is a gradient: somethings are more ambiguous than others. Kamide et al. (1993): anticipating the schema: the girl will ride (we guess carousel, the man will ride (we guess beer but there"s competition b/c he"s dressed to drive, schemas are like templates/data bases we conform to. Anticipated schema and meaning: sentence completion task: the day was breezy so the boy went outside to fly , airplane or kite, airplane unlikely because he"s a boy; airplane generates stronger n400. Does it violate grammar: results: we"re biased to predict a" because there are fewer things boys do outside when it"s windy, semantic and syntactic schemas at play. I saw the boxer on the corner of the street vs.
