word
syntactic ambiguity
sin-TAK-tik am-big-YOO-ih-tee
sɪnˈtæktɪk æmbɪˈɡjuːɪtiListen
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Syllable breakdown
syntacticambiguity
Dictionary meaning
a property of a sentence that has more than one possible grammatical structure or interpretation; for example, 'I saw the man with the telescope' can mean either that the telescope was used for seeing or that the man had a telescope; central to understanding how humans resolve structural uncertainty during real-time language comprehension
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