Glancing over the shoulder of a man on the bus who is reading a newspaper, you see the headline "Shooting of Hunters Terrible." Your ability to disambiguate the meaning of the utterance depends primarily on
a. the presence of contextual information.
b. your ability to visually represent the meaning.
c. your memory for similar accidents.
d. the isolation of propositions.
Answer: a. the presence of contextual information.
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