They also concluded that the semantic constraint provided by a sentence can attenuate cross-language activation at later reading stages.
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When punctuation and similar clues are not consistently available, the segmentation task often requires fairly non-trivial techniques, such as statistical decision-making, large dictionaries, as well as consideration of syntactic and semantic constraints.
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For example, Web Services Description Language ( WSDL ) can specify the operations available through a web service and the structure of data sent and received but cannot specify semantic meaning of the data or semantic constraints on the data.
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A 1969 study by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay demonstrated the existence of universal semantic constraints in the field of colour terminology which were widely seen to discredit the existence of linguistic relativity in this domain, although this conclusion has been disputed by relativist researchers.
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However, this is a semantic constraint rather than a syntactic one; compare the classic nonsensical-but-grammatical sentence " Colorless green ideas sleep furiously ", or more directly, the English phrase " I am raining ".
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These rate abnormalities further are manifest in one or more of the following symptoms : ( a ) an excessive number of disfluencies, the majority of which are not typical of people with stuttering; ( b ) the frequent placement of pauses and use of prosodic patterns that do not conform to syntactic and semantic constraints; and ( c ) inappropriate ( usually excessive ) degrees of coarticulation among sounds, especially in multisyllabic words ".