For example, the following sentence lends itself to two possible interpretations: (1) Old men and women left the theater. What does “old” modify in this sentence? “Men” or “men and women”? In other ...

A study by a pair of University of Chicago psychologists has found that speakers systematically overestimate their ability to convey what they mean, even when they know that what they say is ambiguous ...

Meaning has been given different definitions in the past. Is meaning simply the set of associations that a word evokes, is the meaning of a word defined by the images that its users connect to it? So ...