Ch. 8: Syntax - Phrase Structure & Syntactic Rules

hierarchical structure

property of phrase structure whereby one phrase in contained inside another: one phrase dominates another phrase

lexical ambiguity

word that has more than one meaning

• Templeton is a rat

syntactic ambiguity

clause or phrase has more than one meaning because it has more than one syntactic structure

• That cat chased the rat with a knife

recursion

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