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<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong><br />
Ling472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics<br />
Lecture 1:<br />
Introduction<br />
Constituent Types<br />
• Constituents are characterized by the part‐<strong>of</strong>‐speech <strong>of</strong> their<br />
main word, the “head.”<br />
• Thus, we notice that for many languages, a sentence<br />
comprises a:<br />
– subject (a Noun Phrase or NP)<br />
– predicate (a Verb Phrase or VP)<br />
• These may be composed <strong>of</strong> other constituents<br />
– Prepositional phrase (PP)<br />
– Determiner phrase (DP)<br />
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