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Ambiguity Under Changing Contexts

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Notions of disambiguation supporting a compositional interpretation ofambiguous expressions and reflecting intuitions about how sentences combinein discourse are investigated. Expressions are analyzed both inductively bybreaking them apart, and co-inductively by embedding them within largercontexts.

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Fernando, T. Ambiguity Under Changing Contexts. Linguistics and Philosophy 20, 575–606 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005363517259

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