linguistic string


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Noun1.linguistic string - a linear sequence of words as spoken or writtenlinguistic string - a linear sequence of words as spoken or written
string of words, word string
language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"
sentence - a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"
syntagm, syntagma - a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit
string - a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)
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Without consideration of intonation units, their function and structure, we cannot explain the abiding effects of free verse, such as how changing only the lineation or the spacing of a linguistic string affects both the poem's prosody and its meaning in ways that are fundamentally tied to the phonology of a language and so are "hard-wired" so to speak in speakers or readers.
Intonation and the conventions of free verse
Blumenthal-Drame examines the relationship between frequency in natural language use and the entrenchment of complex linguistic strings in the minds of language users.
Entrenchment in usage-based theories; what corpus data do and do not reveal about the mind

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