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Peer reviewedWeiner, E. Judith; DePalma, Paul – Language and Communication, 1993
Describes a category of riddles based on lexical ambiguity and uses category theory to illustrate the function of the accessibility hierarchy in riddling. A discussion of riddles and parallelism (the tendency to stay on the same syntactic, semantic, pragmatic track while processing language) shows how parallelism partially accounts for how the…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Language Processing, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory
