Open in new tab Hi, I'm Taylor and welcome to Crash Course Linguistics! In episode 3, we learned about how to test which parts of a sentence are constituents, or closely-related subgroups of words.

Predicting what comes next Both sentence building strategies could predict activity in the major left hemisphere's language areas. But the effects were much stronger for predictive structure building.

In the original sentence, the subject was the pronoun “there.” Technically, this is called the “existential there,” which is just a structure we use to say something exists.

This paper investigates the influence of sentence intonation and grammatical structure on the four Mandarin tones. Five speakers recorded a reading text which allowed test words to occur in six ...

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