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  2. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    DPs are not the only phrases that can function as determinative, but they are the most common. [1]: 330 A determinative is a function only in noun phrases. It is usually the leftmost constituent in the phrase, appearing before any modifiers. [24] A noun phrase may have many modifiers, but only one determinative is possible. [1]

  3. Word recognition - Wikipedia

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    Word recognition, according to Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) is "the ability of a reader to recognize written words correctly and virtually effortlessly". It is sometimes referred to as "isolated word recognition" because it involves a reader's ability to recognize words individually from a list without needing similar ...

  4. Compound modifier - Wikipedia

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    Words that function as compound adjectives may modify a noun or a noun phrase.Take the English examples heavy metal detector and heavy-metal detector.The former example contains only the bare adjective heavy to describe a device that is properly written as metal detector; the latter example contains the phrase heavy-metal, which is a compound noun that is ordinarily rendered as heavy metal ...

  5. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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    Spell checkers can use approximate string matching algorithms such as Levenshtein distance to find correct spellings of misspelled words. [1] An alternative type of spell checker uses solely statistical information, such as n-grams, to recognize errors instead of correctly-spelled words. This approach usually requires a lot of effort to obtain ...

  6. Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, the Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm (or KMP algorithm) is a string-searching algorithm that searches for occurrences of a "word" W within a main "text string" S by employing the observation that when a mismatch occurs, the word itself embodies sufficient information to determine where the next match could begin, thus bypassing re-examination of previously matched characters.

  7. Indirect tests of memory - Wikipedia

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    This may be because the first letter is the first cue for what the word to follow may be. [38] [39] WFC is a test of the unconscious retention of information and so the majority of the new research associated with this test is geared towards implicit memory. [39] One application of tests such as this one is with patients who have amnesia. When ...

  8. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    These can also include nominal sentences like "The more, the merrier." These mostly omit a main verb for the sake of conciseness but may also do so in order to intensify the meaning around the nouns. [5] Sentences that comprise a single word are called word sentences, and the words themselves sentence words. [6]

  9. Word superiority effect - Wikipedia

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    When the words make sentences and the letters words, not only do the processes of seeing and naming overlap, but by one mental effort the subject can recognize a whole group of words or letters". [4] G. Reicher and D. Wheeler developed the basic experimental paradigm to study the WSE, referred to as the Reicher-Wheeler paradigm.