Sentence examples for minimal phrases from inspiring English sources

We investigated this by comparing the processing signatures of inflectionally complex words and minimal phrases, two instances of grammatical combination that may nonetheless vary in their neurocognitive substrates.

To this end, we compared the processing signatures for inflectionally complex words and minimal phrases, each requiring combinatorial linguistic analysis, against a background of grammatically simple words.

We address these questions in this study by comparing the processing signatures for inflectionally complex words and minimal phrases, contrasting these with grammatically simple forms such as dog or house.

The first used minimal noun phrases and tested for an effect of semantic composition, while the second employed full sentences and a manipulation of grammatical category.

Most baroque keyboard composers were content to write with minimal ornamentation, phrasing, tempo markings and other clues to interpretation, hoping that the "good taste" of the performer would take over.

This work took a neurobiological approach and assessed the ways in which the complex representation of a minimal combinatory phrase, such as red boat, can be primed, as evidenced by the spatiotemporal profiles of magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals.

The style as well as the content of his poetry reflected this anger: short sentences, staccato phrasing, minimal punctuation, occasional expletives, urgency.

The ode to Princess Diana, whom Langella never met, is a weak link, as is his opening chapter on Marilyn Monroe, which leads with the generic: "Remember when everything meant so much?" There are a few distracting repetitions, including at least 10 variations on the phrase "minimal makeup".