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. 2018 Aug 15;16(8):e2006532. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006532

Fig 2. Examples of parse trees for human phrases and Japanese tit call sequences.

Fig 2

(A) Ambiguity of meaning can be observed when more than two words are strung together ([[old men] and [women]] or [old [men and women]], see [11]). (B) The meaning of phrase depends on syntactic structure. (C) The meaning of Japanese tit sequence also depends on how meaningful calls are combined, indicating that there is also a syntactic structure in which call ordering governs the meaning of sequence. A, adjective; Conj, conjunctive; N’, noun; NP, noun phrase; P, preposition; V, verb; VP, verb phrase.