grammatical rule
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grammatical
adjective
uk/ɡrəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/us/ɡrəˈmæt̬.ɪ.kəl/
relating to grammar or obeying the rules ...
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rule
noun
uk/ruːl/us/ruːl/
an accepted principle or instruction that states the way things are or should be done, and tells you what you are allowed or are not allowed ...
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(Definition ofgrammaticalandrulefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is worth examining why such simple principles work well in a situation that was once thought of as involvinggrammaticalruleabstraction.
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Indeed, we expect that agrammaticalruledeficit would also impair syntactic rules.
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The domain differences obtained thus seem to reflect a semantic tendency rather than a fixedgrammaticalrule.
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The pupils received corrective feedback which drew their attention to thegrammaticalrule.
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A variable rule expresses the probability that some variablegrammaticalrulewill apply.
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This contrast suggests that basal ganglia circuitry contributes togrammaticalruleprocessing, and that the well-studied basal ganglia circuits underlying motor programming may play a comparable role in rule programming.
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In this context, one has to avoid as far as possible situations in which the user could take a convention employed by the checker as a definitivegrammaticalrule.
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Written texts lead a kind of life of their own while building up lexicons,grammaticalrulebooks, literary genres, and the like.
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Clahsen and colleagues interpret these findings as evidence of a preservedgrammaticalrulesystem, along with considerable deficits in lexical knowledge such as is implicated in knowledge of irregular forms.
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When somegrammaticalrulebecame changed or disused, some verbs kept to the old pattern.
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When observing a violation of thegrammaticalrulesystem that composes the string, it is considered an unruleful or randomly constructed string.
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Lessons on grammatical rules, pronunciation, and the like - never mind pragmatic or sociolinguistic conventions - take a backseat to lessons on ideology.
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This differs from the traditional rule-based 'transfer' systems which contain the grammatical rules pertaining to only the source and target languages.
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Most theories of syntax deal only with inputs conforming to their grammatical rules.
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English had grammatical rules, so the sentences that they had been studying were governed by a grammar.
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The claim is that accent placement is not determined by grammatical rules, but is essentially decided by the speaker.
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Evidence that lexical memory is part of the temporal lobe declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the frontal/basal-ganglia procedural system.
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Every spoken phrase is a unique creation that is only comprehensible if a competent speaker follows grammatical rules that govern its creation.
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They also had to attend to grammatical rules requiring that the modifierhead order be preserved.
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Any feature that can be predicted on the basis of other features (such as aspiration on the basis of voicing) need not be indicated in thegrammaticalrule.
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