syntactic structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsyntacticandstructure
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syntactic
adjective
uk/sɪnˈtæk.tɪk/us/sɪnˈtæk.tɪk/
language
relating to the grammatical arrangement of words in ...
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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This makes it harder to establish their presence in thesyntacticstructure.
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This reformulation paired with the idea that the assembly ofsyntacticstructuretakes place in one step leads to the elimination of the cycle.
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This task is believed to probe the subjects' ability to assign -roles to positions where the manipulated variable issyntacticstructure.
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I have argued that virtually all aspects ofsyntacticstructureare language-specific, indeed, construction-specific.
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Keeping phonological andsyntacticstructureseparate allows us to say the natural thing: they are phonological words that correspond to two separate syntactic constituents.
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Gestures and postures are annotated and synchronisation is assessed to thesyntacticstructureof concomitant speech.
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It was natural, therefore, thatsyntacticstructureshould possess features reminiscent of syllable structure.
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What infants know about syntax but couldn't have learned : experimental evidence forsyntacticstructureat 18 months.
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This changes thesyntacticstructureof axioms, but not the vocabulary.
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The discussion of syntax emphasises the view thatsyntacticstructuremust be considered hierarchical and recursive, with examples given illustrating both properties.
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For the complexsyntacticstructure(subordination), implicit instruction ultimately led to equal amounts of explicit knowledge.
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Each such feature may bring a set of syntactic constraints to bear on the overallsyntacticstructurebeing generated.
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It annotates programs with font and color changes based on thesyntacticstructureof the program.
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In this paper, we have shown that the phonological phrasing of a sentence is not straightforwardly predictable from thesyntacticstructurealone.
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Sobin 1997 clearly recognizes the independent role of adjacency in determining agreement but resorts to a disease metaphor when this system overridessyntacticstructure.
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If the linking/interpretation rules are specific to eachsyntacticstructure, then those ' rules ' are in effect the symbolic relations of a constructional representation.
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His answer is (p. 128) that there is a universal ' conceptual space ', within which specific ' maps ' determine semantic structure, which again corresponds tosyntacticstructure.
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