LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phrase Structure Rules, Best Western, Oneword
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Phrases and hierarchial structure: words form larder units, how we represent units. Phrase structure rules: what phrase structure rules represent, the form of ps rules, making ps rules general, one-word phrase. Phrases and hierarchial structure: words form larger units. We can"t explain this without the concept of phrase-units larger than the word: how we represent units. [ np the students [ pp in [ np the class]]] One alternative: represent a sentence as a collection of rewrite rules, with words plugged in. Second alternative: convert each symbol to a set of labeled brackets. Third alternative: use nodes as branches to represent the application of rules: Two or more different elements can occupy the same . Recursion: putting a thing inside of the same thing. The information in ps rules can be represented visually in different ways: with labeled brackets or graphically with tree diagrams.
