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Most readers of this book will recognize right away the structural ambiguity of a celebrated sentence from Chomsky (1965, p. 21):
Flying planes can be dangerous.
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A similar characterization may be found in Lundberg (1978), p. 87.
Clark (1978), however, notes that children (age and literacy level unspecified) can make jokes that play on the ambiguity of “man eating fish”.
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Birdsong, D. (1989). The Development of Metalinguistic Ability. In: Birdsong, D. (eds) Metalinguistic Performance and Interlinguistic Competence. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74124-1_2
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