Abstract: Traditional linguistic analysis divides languages into three components, 'the grammatical/syntactic', 'the semantic' and the 'phonological'. A very simple example of how this distinction operates can be observed in the sentence 'John opened the book'. A syntactic pattern, which can be broadly characterised as SVO (subject, verb, object) sets up slots which are filled by words of different kinds, a specified male person 'John', an action 'opened' and the goal of his attentions 'the book', for example. The pattern combines the meaningful items and is then articulated as sound, entailing a phonological and finally a phonetic component.KeywordsNoun PhraseLanguage TeachingPrepositional PhraseDefinite ArticleConceptual MetaphorThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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