immediate constituent

Then he discusses phrase structure grammar, a model based on immediate constituent analysis.

Phrase structure rules and the tree structures that are associated with them are a form of immediate constituent analysis.

This is extended so that for any given phrase there is a probability distribution over the objects that can be the immediate constituents.

Immediate constituents.

Relative motivation refers to the compositionality of the linguistic system, along the lines of an immediate constituent analysis.

According to my dictionary, a 'phrase marker' is "a representation of the immediate constituent structure of a linguistic construction."

These tests manipulate some portion of a sentence and based on the result, clues are delivered about the immediate constituent structure of the sentence.

"Immediate Constituents."

The category on the left of the arrow is a greater constituent and the immediate constituents to the right of the arrow are lesser constituents.

The end result of IC-analysis is often presented in a visual diagrammatic form that reveals the hierarchical immediate constituent structure of the sentence at hand.

The standard declarative sentence is divided into two immediate constituents, a subject NP and a predicate VP.

The immediate constituents of an item are its largest constituents on a given level; any other constituent is a mediate constituent of the item.

The tree on the left shows the canonical analysis of the clause, whereby the sentence is divided into two immediate constituents, the subject Bill and the finite VP crouched in the bush.

In linguistics, immediate constituent analysis or IC analysis is a method of sentence analysis that was first mentioned by Leonard Bloomfield and developed further by Rulon Wells.

As well as procedures, structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis, a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents, which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent.