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Phrase
About: Phrase is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 12580 publications have been published within this topic receiving 317823 citations. The topic is also known as: syntagma & phrases.
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TL;DR: A longitudinal case study is reported on which followed a Chinese MA student over the course of an academic year and found that she learned 166 new lexical phrases during her studies, and that she improved in her degree of appropriate usage.
192 citations
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TL;DR: This article used a Bayesian framework for grammar induction and showed that an ideal learner could recognize the hierarchical phrase structure of language without having this knowledge innately specified as part of the language faculty.
191 citations
TL;DR: Structural principles, that is, those which refer to the syntactic or semantic positions of the quantified phrases, are investigated, suggesting that alternative interpretations of the ambiguity may be initially considered in parallel, followed by selection of the single interpretation that best satisfies the principles.
191 citations
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01 Jan 1981
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to the problem of foreign literatures and linguistics in the context of linguistics, and propose an approach based on linguistics theory.
Abstract: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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TL;DR: The authors show that learning a verb in a single frame only gives a learner coarse information about its semanic perspective in that frame (e.g., hot bubbling liquid), and that hearing a verb across all its frames also reveals little about the verb root's content.
190 citations