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Which type of ambiguity does the following example illustrate? Manuel bought a motorcycle for his son in Veracruz. I don't understand: did he buy

   

Which type of ambiguity does the following example illustrate? "Manuel bought a motorcycle for his son in Veracruz." "I don't understand: did he buy a motorcycle in Veracruz, or is his son in Veracruz?" Global (sentence-wide syntactic) ambiguity Misplaced modifier Pronoun reference ambiguity Local (lexical) ambiguity Which type of memory is more important in the initial speech processing (word recognition, building basic sentence structures, and so on)? Working (short-term) memory Long-term memory Which type of memory is more important in reconstructing the speaker's inferences? For example, understanding that the answer to the invitation below is negative: A: We'd like you to come to our house for dinner this Saturday. B: I think I'm working all day Saturday. Working (short-term) memory Long-term memory

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