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Examples used to illustrate linguistic phenomena:
independence of syntax:
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. (Noam Chomsky)
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(Steven Pinker's Lady Mondegreen example)
lexical ambiguity:
Time flies like an arrow... Fruit flies like a banana (?)
syntactic ambiguity:
The man saw the boy with the telescope.
syntactic ambiguity and incremnality:
The horse raced past the barn fell (see also Garden Path Sentence)
semantic scope ambiguity and anaphora resolution:
Every farmer who owns a donkey beats it.
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