Other possibilities include comparing meaningfulness ratings to noun noun pairs across different levels of phrase-level usage frequency or comparing the human ratings of meaningfulness with those based on meaningfulness metrics derived from computational algorithms such as latent semantic analysis (LSA: Landauer, McNamara, Dennis, & Kintsch, 2007).
Semantics is the subfield that is devoted to the study of meaning, as inherent at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, and larger units of discourse.
Aided by a collector's love for the diction and lingo of his arcane subjects, Shepard also works splendidly on the level of short phrasing.
Here he perfected his mature horn style, a New Orleans sound broken down into what Brothers calls a "microscopic level of blues phrasing" sped up into a "dazzling melodic flow" of "weird, crazy, and eccentric figures".
Some software authors in the 1980's tried to extend their copyright protection beyond the literal code, to elements at higher levels of abstraction: a common phrase was "structure, sequence and organization".
The level of understanding of phrases in the supplemental text for middle and high school students was significantly higher among sixth-year students (mean = 1.43) than among first-year (mean = 1.12) or fourth-year (mean = 0.93) students (p < 0.05).
Some of it, eg the phrase "the levels of encryption," is flatly factually wrong.
This adoption of a higher level of structure corresponds to the incorporation of phrase structures in the VSM.
Epistemic modals (i.e. modal adverbs)—and the few deontic modal adverbs operate on the level of CP (Complemetizer phrase).
Pon-Barry and Shieber propose the use of phrase-level prosodic features for inferring the level of a speaker's self-reported uncertainty.
The application gauges words and phrases against 8 levels of connotative feeling, enabling end users to make real-time corrections and adjust the overall tone of messages using a simple menu system.
