syntactic frame
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsyntacticandframe
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syntactic
adjective
uk/sɪnˈtæk.tɪk/us/sɪnˈtæk.tɪk/
language
relating to the grammatical arrangement of words in ...
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frame
noun[C]
uk/freɪm/us/freɪm/
a border that surrounds and supports a picture, door, ...
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(Definition ofsyntacticandframefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsyntactic frame
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In our daily linguistic activities, verbs always appear in a particularsyntacticframe.
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One must additionally have knowledge of thesyntacticframewithin which they are used.
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The idea that a ' 'syntacticframe' ' of some kind is operative at the level of grammar is a traditional one.
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This suggests that there should be a developmental trend in children's attention to shape with deformables when a count nounsyntacticframeis used.
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It is assumed that priming represents facilitating the retrieval of a storedsyntacticframe.
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Perhaps a better understanding of the role that input structure plays in acquisition and generalization of asyntacticframewould clarify the current inconsistencies.
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The main effect of syntax indicates that children performed differently according to thesyntacticframe.
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It is therefore possible that the three-year-old children in the present study were relying more on the cue ofsyntacticframe.
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Let us now turn to cases where an over-verb shares the samesyntacticframewith the base verb.
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As noted in section 1, overheat is no different from heat as to thesyntacticframe.
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A past subjunctivesyntacticframeallows the writer to prepare the ground for offering an alternative position from the one he characterizes as unreasonable.
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Their approach, like ours, uses a combination ofsyntacticframeand aspectual features, but a limited set.
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Once an already availablesyntacticframeis retrieved, the child must insert the appropriate lexical items and grammatical morphology into this frame.
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Each word was modelled in a minimalsyntacticframe, with no other content words.
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Thesyntacticframein (a) dictates what pieces must be present.
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This is why overheat and heat appear in the samesyntacticframe.
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The experiment manipulates linguistic context by placing a known verb in a nounsyntacticframe.
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Thus, three-year-old children demonstrated a shape bias when naming both rigid and deformable exemplars, even in the context of a mass nounsyntacticframe.
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This "ritual language" is difficult to learn and use because of the strictsyntacticframeit requires.
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Experiment 2 provided a further test of the second proposal by checking whether three-year-old children's attention to shape is due to the use of a count nounsyntacticframe.
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