According to Chomsky’s approach to language,
In class we talked about the following sentences: "Sarah threw the ball", "The ball was thrown by Sarah" and "Pop can drive".
A. the words that are actually spoken are called deep structure.
B. if two sentences have similar surface structure, they must also have similar deep structure.
C. ambiguity arises when a surface structure has two different deep structures.
D. when two different surface structures have the same deep structure, the two surface structures are called prototypes.
Ans: C. ambiguity arises when a surface structure has two different deep structures.
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