ambiguity of speech
1ambiguity — 1. Ambiguity in language denotes the possibility of more than one meaning being understood from what is heard or read. Intentional ambiguity can be effective, for example as a literary device or in advertising. Our concern here is with… …
2Speech segmentation — is the process of identifying the boundaries between words, syllables, or phonemes in spoken natural languages. The term applies both to the mental processes used by humans, and to artificial processes of natural language processing.Speech… …
3Ambiguity — Sir John Tenniel s illustration of the Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male s face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being… …
4Speech act — For the US Act, see SPEECH Act of 2010. Speech Act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. The contemporary use of the term goes back to John L. Austin s doctrine of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.… …
5ambiguity — noun /æmbɪɡˈjuɪtiː/ a) Something liable to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context. His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be …
6David Wilkinson (ambiguity expert) — David John Wilkinson (born April 24, 1959) is considered to be one of the foremost experts and authors on how people deal with Ambiguity and Emotional Resilience / Psychological resilience.[1] He is the originator of the Modes of Leadership… …
7Syntactic ambiguity — For philosophical considerations of ambiguity, see ambiguity. Syntactic ambiguity is a property of sentences which may be reasonably interpreted in more than one way, or reasonably interpreted to mean more than one thing. Ambiguity may or may not …
8Sliding window based part-of-speech tagging — is used to part of speech tag a text. A high percentage of words in a natural language are words which are independently of context can be assigned more than one morphological analysis. The percentage of these ambiguous words is typically around… …
9elaborated and restricted speech codes — A distinction formulated by Basil Bernstein, a leading figure in the sociology of education, which contrasts the so called formal language of middle class children with the public language of the working class (see his Class, Codes and Control,… …
10Amphilogism — Am*phil o*gism, Amphilogy Am*phil o*gy, n. [Gr. ? + logy.] Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [R.] [1913 Webster] …
