Syntactic and semantic ambiguity represent distinct levels of linguistic indeterminacy.

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Is it true that syntactic and semantic ambiguity represent distinct levels of linguistic indeterminacy?

Yes. Linguistic reference materials confirm that syntactic and semantic ambiguity are distinct categories, with syntactic ambiguity arising from sentence structure and word order, and semantic ambiguity arising from multiple meanings of individual expressions.

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Wikipedia: Syntactic ambiguity

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Wikipedia: Syntactic ambiguity. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity

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Wikipedia: Semantic ambiguity

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Wikipedia: Semantic ambiguity. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_ambiguity

Wikipedia: Ambiguity

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Wikipedia: Ambiguity. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguity

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ambiguity

Lists both syntactic ambiguity and lexical/other forms as distinct types of ambiguity.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ambiguity. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ambiguity/

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