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Su, Soon Peng. Lexical ambiguity in poetry. London: Longman, 1994.

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Gorfein, David S., ed. On the consequences of meaning selection: Perspectives on resolving lexical ambiguity. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/10459-000.

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Sanchez, Moises Almela. From words to lexical units: A corpus-driven account of collocation and idiomatic patterning in English and English-Spanish. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2006.

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Pinkal, Manfred. Logic and lexicon: The semantics of the indefinite. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.

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Catholic Church. Pontificium Consilium pro Familia. Lexicon: Termini ambigui e discussi su famiglia, vita e questioni etiche. Bologna: EDB, 2003.

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Ranjous, Majd. Lexical ambiguity processing. 2004.

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Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. Elsevier, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/c2009-0-27555-6.

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Heredia, Roberto R., and Anna B. Cieślicka. Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2020.

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Heredia, Roberto R., and Anna B. Cieślicka, eds. Bilingual Lexical Ambiguity Resolution. Cambridge University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316535967.

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Titone, Debra Ann. Contextual influences on lexical ambiguity resolution in the cerebral hemispheres. 1995.

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On the Consequences of Meaning Selection: Perspectives on Resolving Lexical Ambiguity. American Psychological Association (APA), 2002.

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Geert, Adriaens, Small Steven Lawrence 1954-, Cottrell Garrison Weeks 1950-, and Tanenhaus Michael K, eds. Lexical ambiguity resolution: Perspectives from psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence. San Mateo, Calif: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1988.

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Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Perspective from Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology and Artificial Intelligence. Morgan Kaufmann, 1988.

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Ludwig, Kirk. The Distributive/Collective Ambiguity in Singular Group Action Sentences. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789994.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 shows that many singular group action sentences admit of a distributive/collective ambiguity and that singular group referring terms are often the antecedents of plural pronouns. This provides support for a straightforward extension of the account of the logical form of plural action sentences to singular group action sentences. It shows further that the ambiguity is not plausibly attributed to lexical ambiguity in either the noun phrase or verb phrase in singular group action sentences. Next, it shows that the reason that some singular group action sentences appear to have only a collective reading has to do with the verbs expressing essentially collective action types and not with the fact that their subject positions are occupied by singular group referring terms.

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Shuy, Roger W. The Effects, Frequency, and Power of the Government’s Uses of Deceptive Ambiguity in Criminal Investigations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190669898.003.0009.

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This chapter first summarizes the role of deceptive ambiguity in relationship to the legal institution’s need to discover predisposition, intentionality, and voluntariness. It then compares the relative frequency of the government representatives’ uses of deceptive ambiguity found in the six elements of the Inverted Pyramid: speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, conversational strategies, and lexical and grammatical language. Finally, it summarizes and compares the uses of deceptive ambiguity by police and prosecutors, when institutional power is strongly evident, with the way deceptive ambiguity is used by three types of cooperating witnesses, when this institutional power is hidden during their undercover interactions with targets.

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Almela, Sanchez MoisTs. From Words to Lexical Units: A Corpus-driven Account of Collocation and Idiomatic Patterning in English and English-spanish (Studien Zur Romanischen Sprachwissenschaft ... Und Interkulturellen Kommunikation). Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.

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Klavans, Judith. Representation and Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge: Polysemy, Ambiguity, and Generativity : Papers from the 1995 Spring Symposium (Aaai Technical Reports). AAAI Press, 1995.

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Rueschemeyer, Shirley-Ann, and M. Gareth Gaskell, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198786825.001.0001.

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This handbook reviews the current state of the art in the field of psycholinguistics. Part I deals with language comprehension at the sublexical, lexical, and sentence and discourse levels. It explores concepts of speech representation and the search for universal speech segmentation mechanisms against a background of linguistic diversity and compares first language with second language segmentation. It also discusses visual word recognition, lexico-semantics, the different forms of lexical ambiguity, sentence comprehension, text comprehension, and language in deaf populations. Part II focuses on language production, with chapters covering topics such as word production and related processes based on evidence from aphasia, the major debates surrounding grammatical encoding. Part III considers various aspects of interaction and communication, including the role of gesture in language processing, approaches to the study of perspective-taking, and the interrelationships between language comprehension, emotion, and sociality. Part IV is concerned with language development and evolution, focusing on topics ranging from the development of prosodic phonology, the neurobiology of artificial grammar learning, and developmental dyslexia. The book concludes with Part V, which looks at methodological advances in psycholinguistic research, such as the use of intracranial electrophysiology in the area of language processing.

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From Words to Lexical Units: A Corpus-driven Account of Collocation and Idiomatic Patterning in English and English-spanish (Studien Zur Romanischen Sprachwissenschaft ... Und Interkulturellen Kommunikation). Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.

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Rudd, Philip W. The Invisible Niche of AUYL. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190657543.003.0013.

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In African cities, postcolonial ambiguity and contradiction bombard speakers, who hybridize traditional values with new urban identities and successfully bridge the old to the new with African Urban Youth Language (AUYL), a term inclusive of argot, slang, and register usage. Sheng, the AUYL from Nairobi, Kenya, exemplifies the metaphorical reversal of the old colonial order, symbolizing an invisible niche binding speakers neither to the traditional ethnic role nor to the old colonial empire and providing a sense of cosmopolitanism. African youth construct this new and modern identity, but the elites, seeing only fragmented nonstandard usage, treat the AUYL as illegitimate in order to render it nonexistent. This sociocultural chapter explores grammatical tendencies and lexical manipulations to disclose how AUYL is a “stylistic practice” (Eckert 2008) or bricolage (Hebdige 1979) that empowers speakers to construct a more complex, and meaningful, postcolonial social world.

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Shuy, Roger W. Police Interviewers Use Deceptive Ambiguity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190669898.003.0003.

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This chapter begins with an analysis of the Miranda warning, pointing out the opportunities it provides for creating ambiguity. Following this, the chapter points out the ways police interviewers used ambiguity with juvenile murder suspect Kevin Rogers in Houston, Texas, and juvenile suspect Michael Carter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The third case describes the law enforcement interviews with Major Dragan Jokic of the Serbian army during the International Criminal Tribunal of Yugoslavia at The Hague. Major Jokic was accused of abetting genocide during the Srebrenica massacre. In all three cases, analysis demonstrates the ways that these government officials used ambiguity deceptively during their interviews with their suspects. This analysis includes the way the interviewers’ used deceptive ambiguity while presenting the speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, conversational strategies, and lexicon and grammar.

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Shuy, Roger W. Deceptive Ambiguity by Police and Prosecutors. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190669898.001.0001.

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Much is written about how criminal suspects, defendants, and undercover targets use ambiguous language in their interactions with police, prosecutors, and undercover agents. This book examines the other side of the coin, describing fifteen criminal investigations demonstrating how police, prosecutors, undercover agents, and complainants use deceptive ambiguity with their subjects, which leads to misrepresentations of the speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, lexicon, and grammar. These misrepresentations affect the perceptions of judges and juries about the subjects’ motives, predispositions, intentions, and voluntariness. Deception is commonly considered intentional while ambiguity is often excused as unintentional performance errors. Although perhaps overreliance on Grice’s maxim of sincerity leads some to believe this, interactions of suspects, defendants, and targets with representatives of law are adversarial, non-cooperative events that enable participants to ignore or violate the cooperative principle. One effective way the government does this is to use ambiguity deceptively. Later listeners to the recordings of such conversations may not recognize this ambiguity and react in ways that the subjects may not have intended. Deceptive ambiguity is clearly intentional in undercover operations and the case examples illustrate that the practice also is alive and well in police interviews and prosecutorial questioning. The book concludes with a summary of how the deceptive ambiguity used by representatives of the government affected the perception of the subjects’ predisposition, intentionality and voluntariness, followed by a comparison of the relative frequency of deceptive ambiguity used by the government in its representations of speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, lexicon, and grammar.

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Simmons, Geoffrey, and Manfred Pinkal. Logic and Lexicon: The Semantics of the Indefinite. Springer, 2014.

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Shuy, Roger W. Deceptive Ambiguity in Language Elements of the Inverted Pyramid. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190669898.003.0008.

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This chapter provides an overview of the uses of deceptive ambiguity by representatives of the government, including police, prosecutors, undercover agents, and complainants. The chapter summarizes the findings of the preceding chapters under the six categories of speech events, schemas, agendas, speech acts, conversational strategies, and lexicon/grammar. These language elements make up what is referred to here as the Inverted Pyramid, a sequential approach to analyzing language evidence that is used by representatives of the government during their criminal investigations, hearings, and trials. These six language elements, when viewed as a whole, range from larger language units to smaller ones and provide the discourse context in which the government’s perceptions of smoking gun evidence must be seen.

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Shuy, Roger W. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190669898.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces the important concepts of intentionality, ambiguity, deception, institutional power, and the discourse context in the context of the Inverted Pyramid approach in order to reveal the deceptive ambiguity used by police, prosecutors, undercover agents, and complainants in the fifteen criminal cases described in the following chapters. The Inverted Pyramid is a heuristic for analyzing continuous conversation. This chapter introduces and defines the elements of the Inverted Pyramid, noting that it is most useful to begin analysis of criminal case language evidence with the largest language element, the speech event, followed in descending order with the increasingly smaller language elements of the participants’ schemas, their individual agendas (as revealed by topics and responses), their speech acts, conversational strategies used by law representatives of the government, and the lexicon and grammar, which is the language element in which the alleged smoking gun evidence commonly is thought to reside).

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