Sentence examples for preceding words from inspiring English sources

Fowler said that, "the colon... has acquired a special function, that of delivering the goods that have been invoiced in the preceding words".

The purpose of a language model (LM) employed in an ASR system is to provide the probability of a word given the history of its preceding words.

The language model in most state-of-the-art LVCSR systems is still the N-gram, which assigns probability to the next word based on only the N−1 preceding words [64].

In case the target word locates at the beginning or the end of the example sentence, the two following or preceding words of the target word are used instead.

Results from the two experiments showed that animacy-violated sentences with no plausible non-surface interpretation elicited the same P600 effect as both types of role-reversed sentences; additionally, semantically anomalous target words elicited no N400 effects when they were strongly semantically related to the preceding words, regardless of the presence of animacy violations.

They measured the proportion of words correctly named, isolating the contribution of form by measuring the effect of word duration and isolating the effect of context by measuring the effect of the number of preceding words in the sentence.

3An asterisk indicates that a preceding word is unattested but has been deduced from attested derivatives.

(The lovely term "anaphoric", by the way, means "referring to or standing for a preceding word or group of words").

In a slide projection piece by Pierre Bismuth called "Mute and Noisy," each of 81 slides shows a handprinted word synonymous with the preceding word.

Constructions like "A nadder" or "Mine napron" were so common the first letter was assumed to be part of the preceding word.

This game requires players to generate a word that begins with the last syllable of the preceding word.