Editing Syntactic ambiguity (section)

==Different forms==

===Globally ambiguous===
A globally ambiguous sentence is one that has at least two distinct interpretations and where reading the entire sentence does not resolve the ambiguity. Globally ambiguous sentences exist where no feature of the representation (i.e. word order) distinguishes the possible distinct interpretations. Global ambiguities are often unnoticed because readers tend to choose the interpretation they understand to be more probable. One example of a global ambiguity is "The woman held the baby in the green blanket." In this example, the baby, incidentally wrapped in the green blanket, is being held by the woman, or the woman is using the green blanket as an instrument to hold the baby, or the woman is wrapped in the green blanket and holding the baby.

===Locally ambiguous===
A locally ambiguous sentence is a sentence that contains an ambiguous phrase but has only one interpretation.<ref name="LamersSwart2011">{{cite book|author1=Monique Lamers|author2=Peter de Swart|title=Case, Word Order and Prominence: Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eoe8RhLy3IUC&q=%22locally+ambiguous%22|date=20 October 2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-007-1463-2}}</ref> The ambiguity in a locally ambiguous sentence briefly stays and is resolved, i.e., [[Word-sense disambiguation|disambiguated]], by the end of the speech. Sometimes, local ambiguities can result in [[Garden path sentence|"garden path" sentences]], in which a structurally correct sentence is difficult to interpret because one interpretation of the ambiguous region is not the one that makes most sense.