The Different Types of English Ambiguity 【Abstract】 This article is about the different types of ambiguity in English. There are three different types ambiguity in English.They are phonetic ambiguity, lexical ambiguity, syntactic ambiguity.Phonetic ambiguity is mainly caused by the unknown boundaries of syllable, the changes of stress, the intonation, sense group or pause of words, and the emphasis of words.Lexical ambiguity is mainly caused by the ambiguity of polysemy, compound words, transformation
Introduction Ambiguity, as is defined in the Webster‟s Third International Dictionary(许素波，Types of Ambiguity in English，1999-04), is “the condition of admitting of two or more meanings, of being understood in more than one way, or of referring to two or more things at the same time.” In other words, ambiguity is the presence of two or more possible meanings in a single passage. In speech and writing, there are two basic types of ambiguity: lexical ambiguity and syntactic ambiguity. Lexical ambiguity means
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