deep structure

collocation in English

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deep
adjective
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/diːp/us
/diːp/
going or being a long way down from the top or surface, or being of a particular distance from the top to ...
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structure
noun
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/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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The first focuses on thedeepstructureof the international system.
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The second difficulty with cooperative utilitarianism also flows from itsdeepstructure, but here its teleological aspect.
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Our core grammar incorporates a representation ofdeepstructure, projections of the frameworks that result from subcategorizing major categories.
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Surface structure corresponds to many of the observable properties, like lines and colors, whereasdeepstructurerefers to how the artwork is organized.
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The analysis, along the above lines, shows us little more than that the work perfectly fits into the expectation of thedeepstructureof an indie song.
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The ubiquitous learning and memory processes evoked in the previous sections are sufficient to explain the emergence of a reliable representation of thedeepstructureof the material.
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The material under musicaldeepstructureor building blocks ofdeepstructureconsists of underlying strings.
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This section points out that although standard transformational grammar claims to be semantically impartial, different thematic meanings of adeepstructurestill exist in the corresponding surface structures (213-214).
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Instead of repudiating a vulgar nineteenth-century anthropology in which political or social identities provide the key to the 'true story' or 'deepstructure' of human experience, our neo-essentialists reinvent it.
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According to these authors, performance is initially sensitive to low-level surface features, then becomes increasingly independent of those features, and exclusively determined by thedeepstructureof the material.
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The objection is that such a module or device requires all the neurophysiology implied by the syntacticaldeepstructureto be frozen and fixed in place all at once.
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Thedeepstructureof vortices is not completely clear.
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He illustrated the tensions that exists in thedeepstructureof all human experience.
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Thedeepstructure(d-structure) objects are equal to the surface structure (s-structure) subjects.
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Similarly,deepstructurewas devised largely for technical reasons relating to early semantic theory.
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Transformational processes in music are the steps which composers take fromdeepstructureto surface structure.
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He explains thatdeepstructureis musical prose (p. 85), or an unartistic version of music.
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Deepstructurecomprises underlying phonemes and word parts, while surface structure is the spoken sentence.
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Thedeepstructurecontains distributed memory, while the surface structure acts as the retrieval mechanism.
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The concept ofdeepstructureplays an important role in transformational grammar.
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The transformational process can be represented by a transformation fromdeepstructureto surface structure.
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This shows the transformative processes to travel fromdeepstructureto surface structure, or music.
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This led later to his redefinition of transformations as operations mapping an abstractdeepstructureinto a surface structure.
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Organizational culture refers to thedeepstructure, the normative beliefs, and shared behavioral expectations in an organization.
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