Of the 49 post-nominal Arg1s for expression, in a full 39 cases the Arg1 was in an immediately adjacent prepositional phrase headed by the preposition of; in the remaining 10 cases, the PP was still an of -phrase (although either an intervening head noun or another conjoined nominalization intervened).
Language, in particular, involves learning and processing of complex sequential structures, such as the sequence of phonemes that form a word, sequence of words that form a phrase, and word order, adjacent dependencies (e.g. determiners such as 'a' and 'the' always occur before a noun phrase) and nonadjacent relationships (e.g. is V- ing ).
Phrase searching restricts the search to adjacent words in a particular order (punctuation in the text, except for apostrophes, should not be entered).
In more detail, pattern (B) finds noun phrases in which a tissue modifies a trigger next to it (i.e. ws = 0); and pattern (C) recognizes phrases where a tissue modifies a trigger as a preposition phrase and all components should occur adjacent to each other.
Each speaker uttered nine training phrases, which were recorded by an adjacent microphone.
Melodies and call-and-response phrases arrived with instruments playing them on adjacent notes, so that tunes became broad formations.
The lockers adjacent to his were cordoned off with athletic tape onto which the phrases "No Media" and "Stay Out" were scribbled — a playful nod to the horde of reporters observing him this week.
In the second sentence, make it "said Mr. Albert, who …" While we prefer to avoid the journalistic mannerism of inverting attribution phrases, it's necessary here so the relative clause will be adjacent to its antecedent.
Here "phrase" refers to single words or groups of words that tend to occur adjacent to each other.
During the debate, Mr. Blocher joked that he learned his French tending cows in the canton adjacent to Geneva, and he frequently turned to a translator to seek the right word or phrase.
This phrasing appears to create greater overlap between Options 1 and 2 than between other adjacent options.
