Applied English
for Linguistics
-Summer 2009-
J. E. Seibert
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Tokyo International University of America
Structural ambiguity:
Draw a picture for each tree
1.
"saw Nick with binoculars" (looked through binoculars and saw Nick)
"saw Nick with binoculars" (saw Nick when when Nick was looking through binoculars.)
2. "hit the man with the hammer"