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Examines some relationships between generality and ambiguity for a set of words. Generality's reference to the inclusiveness of a class which the word names; Description of the ambiguity of a word as a condition where a word evokes more than one meaning response in a perceiver; Suggestion that no functional difference between the concepts of generality and ambiguity was perceived by the participating subjects.

This study investigates into the normative meaning and the variance of meaning of each of thirteen terms of number or amount and compares with similar data obtained by the another research about 25 years earlier. Although this time has elapsed and although new subjects have been used and the section of the country from which most of them came was different, normative meanings found in the forties were strikingly similar to those of the seventies. The same is also true, with two exceptions, for the degree of variance or ambiguity. However, the variance or ambiguity of these terms of number or amount should warn writers and speakers to use such terms with caution, particularly where more precise quantitative descriptions can be given.

This article presents research concerned with superficially ambiguous sentences and the acoustic cues for their spoken disambiguation. A set of sentences containing the phrase "good flies quickly" in each of two constituent structurings (for example, "the good flies quickly past" and "the good flies quickly passed") was read by five trained readers. The recorded readings of this phrase were then excised from the full sentences and presented to two groups of listeners. One group was asked to judge the location of the "sentence break" in each reading, while the other group was asked whether good or flies was "most stressed" in each reading.

An experimental analogue of the initial interview is used to investigate the effects of interviewer ambiguity-specificity and topical focus, i.e., a low- vs. a high-anxiety arousing topic, on interviewee vocabulary diversity, measured by the type-token ratio. This paper is one of a series dealing with the effects of both the ambiguity level and the anxiety arousing potential in an interviewer's remarks on interviewee's responses. In the present study authors are concerned with the effects of the above two interviewer variables on interviewee vocabulary diversity, as measured by the types token-ratio, i.e., the ratio of different words (types) to the total number of words (tokens).

Describes the effect of hostile context in resolving the ambiguity of stimulus words. Role of hostility in the life history of juvenile delinquents; Basis of the characteristics of prior context; Details on the production of hostile associates.

This article presents a modified procedure for identifying the Russian adverbial modifier or predicative complement and providing its correct English equivalent by mechanical translation. Earlier, attempts were made to formulate an unambiguous set of operational instructions which would enable an electronic computer to deal with a certain problem in the syntax of Russian; namely, to identify the Russian adverbial modifier or predicative complement, and to supply its correct English equivaIent. The set of instructions which we developed was based upon the examination of approximately 31,000 running words of Russian scientific text.

This article focuses on syntactic function by linear context. In an earlier paper, scholars attempted to formulate an unambiguous set of operational instructions which would enable an electronic computer to deal with a certain problem in the syntax of Russian; namely, to identify the Russian -o/-e/-ee adverbial modifier or predicative complement, and to supply its correct English equivalent. The set of instructions which we developed was based upon the examination of approximately 31,000 running words of Russian scientific text.

The article sets out a mechanical procedure for eliminating lexical ambiguities in machine translation in cases where a word in the source language has a number of equivalents in the target language. It can be argued for this method that it does away with the need for multiple meaning analyses, for "look-up" operations, and for some machine subroutines and programming, and thus minimizes machine time. Furthermore, it is generally agreed that machine translation will be realized for one limited universe at a time and not for "language" as a whole.

The article investigates ways in which grammatical number of a Russian noun is identified whenever form alone fails to provide the distinction by researchers from Ann Arbor, Michigan. In this study, a set of rules has been constructed to resolve the ambiguity of the grammatical number of certain Russian nouns. These rules were tested on 2,655 ambiguous nouns taken from a 30,152 word text in the field of physics. By making certain modifications, the validity of the rules was increased to approximately 99 percent.