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【正文】 ame pronunciation, their meanings are different. Homophony Homophones are words identical in sound but different in spelling and meaning, such as “I/eye”, “see/sea”, “dear/deer”, “tail/tale” and so on. Homophones will cause confusion of words understanding. Let us take a look at the following example. (3) The mathematics professor noticed that one of his students was daydreaming, and not following his work in the blackboard, to recall his attention, he said sharply, “Brown, Brown, board!” The boy s tartled, looked up. “Yes, sir, very.” came the reply. “Board” and “bored” have the same phonological form /bo:d/. The professor wanted Brown to look at the blackboard, but Brown woke up from his dream and didn’t catch his professor, so he answered immediately “Yes, sir, very”. Brown misunderstood his teacher by replying the mathematical class was boring. Lexical Ambiguity Semantic ambiguity relates to the ambiguous meaning of words or sentences. The paper just analyzes lexical ambiguity. Most of lexical ambiguity is caused by polysemy and homonymy. In addition, historical change and dialectical difference also trigger lexical ambiguity. P olysemy Polysemy is the phenomenon that words are associated with at least two meanings. Example is the word “head”, which refers to the object on the top of our body, on the top of a glass of beer, on the top of a pany or department. Though polysemy has many interpretations, just only one is maintained in a certain context. If two interpretations of the same word can be both adopted in a sentence, ambiguity occurs. For example: (4) He was seated by the chairman. The different understanding of the word “by” will lead to ambiguity. If it is understood as “by the side of”, this s entence’s meaning is “He seated by the side of the chairman”. But if word “by” is understood as a preposition, the sentence means “The chairman let him sit down”. Homonymy Homonyms are words with the same pronunciation and written forms, but with distinct and unrelated meanings. Examples are the words like “punch” (a blow with a fist or a drink)。 they also have a hierarchical structure, made up of layers of word group” ( Hu zhuanglin 2020:122). Sometimes the same linear order of constituents corresponds to more than one constituent structure, which is a potential cause of syntactic ambiguity. Look at the following example: ( 9a) I bought a present to my sister in Beijing. Sentence ( 9a) is ambiguous since it has more than one possible interpretation. The ambiguity arises from the fact that the string of words has more than one possible constituent structure. We can bracket this sentence in different ways to indicate the different constituent structures: (9) b. I bought a present to [my sister in Beijing] c. I bought a present to [my sister] [in Beijing] Sentence ( 9a) can be paraphrased as “I t was to my sister in Beijing that I bought a present”
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