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interphrasally en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ɪn.tɚˈfɹeɪ.zʌ.li/

Etymology

From interphrasal + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an interphrasal way.
   • For example, marking agreement inside a single phrase, via a process of unification, between a noun and an adjacent adjective in a noun phrase, will be less demanding in processing terms than a procedure that requires exchanging information 'inter-phrasally', that is, across two separate phrases (an NP and a VP for example) and so these local dependencies should emerge before the longer distance ones. 2014, Michael Sharwood Smith, John Truscott, The Multilingual Mind: A Modular Processing Perspective:

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interfrastically