It enables one to assume that the architecture of syntactic structure is principled; functional categories ( function words ) consistently appear above lexical categories ( content words ) in phrases and clauses.
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Elbert & Pukui have pointed out that " Certain combinations of sounds are absent or rare . " For example, no content word has the form, and the form, is also not common.
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Traugott cites a counterexample from function to content word proposed by Kate Burridge ( 1998 ) : the development in modal " welle "'would'( from'wanted') into a full verb'to wish, to desire '.
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Almost all these approaches normally work by defining a window of " n " content words around each word to be disambiguated in the corpus, and statistically analyzing those " n " surrounding words.
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The avoidance register has the same grammar as ordinary Warlpiri, but a drastically reduced lexicon; most content words are replaced either by a generic synonym or by a word unique to the avoidance register.
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The open closed distinction is related to the distinction between lexical and functional categories, and to that between content words and function words, and some authors consider these identical, but the connection is not strict.
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"We think of these as essentially the glue that holds content words together, " he said, " and it's glue that in many ways can be thought of as the basis for linguistic style ."
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When perceiving accented syllables in production, by showing that the excursions of F0 of English content words were larger for Japanese nonnative speakers of English than for native English speakers ( Aoyama and Guion, 2007 ).
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The effect is much stronger for words in a predicate-argument relationship than for arbitrary associations at the same distance to the target word, and is much stronger for collocations with content words than with function words.
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If words could be split, we likely could separate content words from utility words ( like conjunctions and articles . ) Omnilingual has some interesting ideas on this .-- talk ) 02 : 49, 11 January 2008 ( UTC)
