1 Families watch fireworks and eat small round dumplings.
backpack 4: 77 Sentence above is an instance of structural ambiguity. It is
ambiguous because it has more than one sentence construction. The writer presents the unambiguous sentences as follows:
Families watch fireworks and eat small of round dumplings. 2
Ritual rain dances backpack 4: 104 Sentence above is an instance of structural ambiguity. It is
ambiguous because it has more than one sentence construction. The writer presents the unambiguous sentence as follow:
Ritual of rain dances
d. Moving sentence construction
Schlenker proposes “the preceding analysis make an interesting prediction. A well-chosen constituency test should disambiguate the
sentence, i.e. make it unambiguous” 1999: 8.
1 They wear butterfly crowns and jewels in their hair.
backpack 4: 100
That sentence is an instance of structural ambiguity. It is ambiguous because it has more than one sentence construction. The
writer presents the unambiguous sentences as follows: − They wear butterfly crowns and butterfly jewels in their hair.
− They wear butterfly crowns and a lot of jewels accessories in their hair.
2 Smelling apples or bananas every day can help you lose
weight. backpack 4: 33 Sentence above is an instance of structural ambiguity. The
writer presents the unambiguous sentences as follows: − Smelling apples every day can help you lose weight or eating
bananas can help too. − To help you lose weight, you can smelling apples or smelling
bananas every day.
3 Good times cafe backpack 4: 31
That sentence has more than one sentence construction. The writer presents the unambiguous sentences as follows:
− The cafe name is Good times. − Good times to go to the cafe.
4 People eat a lot of seafood in Ecuador. backpack 4: 35
The sentence above has more than one sentence construction. The writer presents the unambiguous sentences as follows:
− In Ecuador, people eat a lot of seafood. − People eat a lot of seafood that is from Ecuador.
5 In this dance, teenagers dress up like little old men and
imitate them. backpack 4: 100 That sentence is an instance of structural ambiguity. It is
ambiguous because it has more than one sentence construction. The writer presents the unambiguous sentences as follows::
− In this dance, teenagers dress up like a men that is little old and imitate them. if it means the man that is little old
− In this dance, teenagers dress up like an old men that has little body and imitate them. if it means that old man that has small
body
e. Adding Additional Context
Some linguist interpreted how to disambiguate ambiguous sentence as the problem of assigning a sense to an ambiguous word,
using its context. A context, for example, of the target word W is any
sentence that contains W and optionally the two adjacent sentences in the corpus Karov and Edelman, 1998: 41-43. The writer presents
some example from the data as follows: 1
The Komodo dragon is also endangered. backpack 4: 53 Sentence above contain homophone that is located in the word
endangered. The word endangered can be interpreted as endangered or a species seriously at risk of extinction and as in danger or someone
or something at risk or in danger. The unambiguous sentence is: The Komodo dragon is also endangered animal because it
number is low and only found in Indonesia. 2
The World’s Table backpack 4: 26 The word table has more than one meaning, there are: as a piece
of furniture, or dining room table, or living room table. The context of that sentence does not focus in the word table to be as a piece of
furniture, or dining room table, or living room table. The unambiguous sentences are:
− The World’s dining Table if it means dining room table − The World’s living Table if it means living room table
3 He doesn’t like diet soda. backpack 4: 30
The word diet can be interpreted in two ways, there are: drink with low fat or less sugar content; and food to lose weight. The context
of that sentence does not detail in the one of interpretations. The unambiguous sentences are:
− He doesn’t like diet soda because there is less sugar. if diet means a drink that contains less sugar
− He doesn’t like diet soda because he is not on diet. if diet means a drink that use to lose weight
4 How did a 12-year-old help endangered animals and work
with stars at the same time? backpack 4: 56 The words stars can be interpreted in more than one ways,
there are: actors or actresss or famous people. The unambiguous sentences are:
− How did a 12-year-old help endangered animals and work with American superstars at the same time?
5 Silent alarm clock backpack 4: 68
It is ambiguous because it has more than one sentence construction. The unambiguous sentences are:
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