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Some Relationships Between Perceived Generality and Ambiguity in a Set of Words

Author(s) -

William R. Berdine

Publication year - 1974

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383097401700401

Subject(s) - generality , ambiguity , referent , word (group theory) , set (abstract data type) , class (philosophy) , meaning (existential) , psychology , linguistics , cognitive psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , psychotherapist , programming language

The broad problem in this study is to examine some relationships between generality and ambiguity for a set of words. The generality of a word refers to the inclusivesness of a class which the word names; and the more general the word, the less narrow is the referent class it represents. The ambiguity of a word is a condition where a word evokes more than one meaning response in a perceiver. The results of this study suggest that no functional difference between the concepts of generality and ambiguity was perceived by the participating subjects.

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