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  2. Jabberwocky sentence - Wikipedia

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    When presented with phrase-structure violations in Jabberwocky sentences, however, preschoolers demonstrate activity analogous to a N400, typically associated with the extraction of meaning from words in adults, along with a diminished P600. This implies that semantics plays a role in syntactic processing in children and provides ...

  3. Analogy - Wikipedia

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    A good example is software, formed by analogy with hardware; other analogous neologisms such as firmware and vapourware have followed. Another example is the humorous [17] term underwhelm, formed by analogy with overwhelm. Some people present analogy as an alternative to generative rules for explaining the productive formation of structures ...

  4. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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    In Syntactic Structures, the term "transformation" was borrowed from the works of Zellig Harris. Harris was Chomsky's initial mentor. Harris used the term "transformation" to describe equivalence relations between sentences of a language. By contrast, Chomsky's used the term to describe a formal rule applied to underlying structures of ...

  5. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Another definition of "sentence length" is the number of clauses in the sentence, whereas the "clause length" is the number of phones in the clause. [ 12 ] Research by Erik Schils and Pieter de Haan by sampling five texts showed that two adjacent sentences are more likely to have similar lengths than two non-adjacent sentences, and almost ...

  6. Homology (biology) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the wings of insects and birds evolved independently in widely separated groups, and converged functionally to support powered flight, so they are analogous. Similarly, the wings of a sycamore maple seed and the wings of a bird are analogous but not homologous, as they develop from quite different structures.

  7. Negative raising - Wikipedia

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    Only the upper copy of the word is pronounced, so there is no possibility of an incorrect double negation analysis of the meaning. This can be seen as analogous to English sentences that contain a NEG internal to the DP combined with an NPI. The structure of the sentence in these cases is as follows:

  8. Structural analog - Wikipedia

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    A structural analog, also known as a chemical analog or simply an analog, is a compound having a structure similar to that of another compound, but differing from it in respect to a certain component. [1] [2] [3] It can differ in one or more atoms, functional groups, or substructures, which are replaced with other atoms, groups, or ...

  9. Structural linguistics - Wikipedia

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    With such precaution, structural explanation of language is analogous to structuralism in biology which explains structures in relation with material factors or substance. [26] In Saussure's explanation, structure follows from systemic consequences of the association of meaning and expression. [9]