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What does syntax specify?
Back
Syntax specifies how words combine into phrases and clauses.
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02
Front
How is sentence structure organized?
Back
Sentence structure is hierarchical: words group into phrases and clauses, rather than forming only a linear sequence.
03
Front
In “The child opened the box,” what are the noun and verb phrases?
Back
In “The child opened the box,” “the child” is the noun phrase and “opened the box” is the verb phrase.
04
Front
In “The child opened the box,” what roles do the child and box play?
Back
The child is the opener, and the box is what was opened.
05
Front
What is a syntactic parse?
Back
A syntactic parse assigns words to categories and relates them in a structural representation, such as phrase structure or dependencies.
06
Front
What long-distance relation occurs in “Which box did the child open __?”
Back
A parse can connect words that are far apart. In “Which box did the child open __?”, “which box” is understood as the object of “open.”
07
Front
When is a sentence syntactically ambiguous?
Back
A sentence is syntactically ambiguous when its words can be grouped into more than one grammatical structure.
08
Front
What are two readings of “I saw the man with a telescope”?
Back
“With a telescope” can describe how I saw the man, or it can describe the man I saw.
09
Front
What is a garden-path sentence?
Back
A garden-path sentence initially encourages one parse, but later words show that another structure is needed.
10
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In “The butter melted in the pan was starting to burn,” what does “was starting” reveal?
Back
“Was starting” shows that “melted in the pan” describes the butter; “was starting to burn” is the main clause.
11
Front
What does incremental comprehension mean?
Back
Comprehension is incremental: people begin interpreting as each word arrives, building and updating a partial structure.
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How can comprehenders anticipate what comes next?
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Comprehenders can use context and prior experience to anticipate likely upcoming words or structures.
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