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2. Focus (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, focus (abbreviated FOC) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information. In the English sentence "Mary only insulted BILL", focus is expressed prosodically by a pitch accent on "Bill" which identifies him as the only person whom Mary insulted.

3. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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   The grammar model discussed in Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures (1957) Chomsky's transformational grammar has three parts: phrase structure rules, transformational rules and morphophonemic rules. [68] The phrase structure rules are used for expanding lexical categories and for substitutions. These yield a string of morphemes. A ...

4. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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   A syllabus based on the grammar or structure of a language; often part of the grammar translation method. Guided practice An intermediate stage in language practice - between "controlled practice" (q.v.) and "free practice" (q.v.) activities; this stage features allows for some creativity from the students.

5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words , phrases , clauses , sentences , and whole texts. Overview

6. Structural approach - Wikipedia

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   To correlate the teaching of grammar and composition with the reading lesson. To teach the four fundamental skills, namely understanding, speaking, reading and writing in the order names. To lay proper emphasis on the aural- oral approach, activity methods and the condemnation of formal grammar for its own sake. [8]

7. Generalized phrase structure grammar - Wikipedia

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   Generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG) is a framework for describing the syntax and semantics of natural languages. It is a type of constraint-based phrase structure grammar . Constraint based grammars are based around defining certain syntactic processes as ungrammatical for a given language and assuming everything not thus dismissed is ...

8. Colon cancer: Measuring ‘biological age’ may help predict who ...

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   New research suggests that biological age — a measure of the body’s physiological state — could predict who is at higher risk for developing colon polyps, a key risk factor for colorectal ...

9. Information structure - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, information structure, also called information packaging, describes the way in which information is formally packaged within a sentence. [1] This generally includes only those aspects of information that "respond to the temporary state of the addressee's mind", and excludes other aspects of linguistic information such as references to background (encyclopedic/common) knowledge ...