the relations among the words and morphemes of a sentence
▶ USAGE The abbreviation for phrase structure is PS
phrase structure in American English
noun
Linguistics
the hierarchical arrangement of the constituent words and phrases of a sentence
Also called: constituent structure
Word origin
[1955–60]This word is first recorded in the period 1955–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: backgrounder, geodesic dome, life-support, new wave, rite of passage
Examples of 'phrase structure' in a sentence
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Phrase structure trees have a hierarchical structure.
Roberts Mark D. 2015, 'Ultrametric Distance in Syntax', Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguisticshttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pralin.2015.103.issue-1/pralin-2015-0006/pralin-2015-0006.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Dependency parsing and phrase structure parsing are combined for relation extraction.
Changqin Quan, Meng Wang, Fuji Ren 2014, 'An unsupervised text mining method for relation extraction from biomedical literature.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4103846?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This article claims that some familiar properties of phrase structure reflect laws of form.
David P. Medeiros 2008, 'Optimal Growth in Phrase Structure', Biolinguisticshttp://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/52. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Notwithstanding this lack of attention, these structures are in fact highly relevant to theories of linearization and phrase structure.
Brian Hok-Shing Chan 2015, 'Portmanteau constructions, phrase structure and linearization', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01851/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Three aspects of the sentence materials were varied: (1) phrase structure complexity, (2) sentence length, and (3) picture congruence.
Katrien S. F. Colman, Janneke Koerts, Laurie A. Stowe, Klaus L. Leenders, RoelienBastiaanse 2011, 'Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients withParkinson's Disease', Parkinson's Diseasehttp://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/213983. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
All related terms of 'phrase structure'
phrase-structure rule
a rule of the form A → X where A is a syntactic category label , such as noun phrase or sentence , and X is a sequence of such labels and/or morphemes , expressing the fact that A can be replaced by X in generating the constituent structure of a sentence
phrase-structure grammar
a grammar in which relations among the words and morphemes of a sentence are described , but not deeper or semantic relations
rewrite rule
a rule of the form A → X where A is a syntactic category label , such as noun phrase or sentence , and X is a sequence of such labels and/or morphemes , expressing the fact that A can be replaced by X in generating the constituent structure of a sentence
rewriting rule
a rule of the form A → X where A is a syntactic category label , such as noun phrase or sentence , and X is a sequence of such labels and/or morphemes , expressing the fact that A can be replaced by X in generating the constituent structure of a sentence