Monday, July 30, 2012

Fallacy of Accent

The fallacy of accent occurs when the meaning of a word or sentence is ambiguous and depends on where one places the the spoken stress. It's not easy to find the fallacy of accent in modern English; it's much more common in ancient Greek, the language of the philosopher who first described it: Aristotle. Loosely defined, though, the fallacy of accent can still crop up

Read Article: Fallacy of Accent - Ambiguity Fallacy of Ambiguous Stress in Word, Sentence


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