function word

Distribution by form for PFs in COMETVAL Verb-based frames 36.8% Frames with other content words 53.9% Function word frames 9.3% Note: Table made from bar graph.

a) In the first, we used two independent variables: the identity of the letter ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), and the syntactic role of the morpheme in which it occurred (as part of a function word or morpheme, or as part of a content word).

For example, the terms blog, click/clic, chat, and log have no Italian language synonyms and are function words needed by the user to navigate through a given medium.

The second series of tests looks at function words, theoretically a relatively subconscious element in writing.

Example (24b) shows that the right boundary of a weak function word does not license intrusive -r.

Some function words, such as prepositions and the articles the and a, were excluded from the model building.

Afterward, only linguistic patterns that cannot be perceived in reading--particularly combinations of function words and other collocations--resist conscious editorial alteration.

Brother International's Super PowerNote Personal Electronic Notebook--which Brother is positioning as the alternative to notebook computers--comes with built-in software, including full function word processing, spreadsheet, address book, and communications to access CompuServe or e-mail.

Function Word Deletion--An additional goal of the sentence compasion technique is to relieve the user from the burden of inputting function words.

(185) As we do in the analysis above, Rosenthal and Yoon use a function word approach to identify author style.

Each text slice is represented as a list of real values (or "vector"), which will hold the relative frequencies of the items in the function word vocabulary we consider.