Branching
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British pronunciation/bɹˈɑːnt‍ʃɪŋ/
American pronunciation/ˈbɹæntʃɪŋ/

"branching"的定义和意义

Branching
01

分枝, 分叉

the act of branching out or dividing into branches
02

分支结构, 分叉结构

the structural arrangement of constituents within a sentence, where a constituent can branch into multiple sub-constituents, indicating a hierarchical relationship and the presence of multiple levels of syntactic structure

What is "branching"?

Branching refers to the way in which elements in a syntactic structure are organized and connected, often illustrated as a tree-like diagram in linguistic analysis. In a branching structure, a single element can divide into multiple components, creating a hierarchy of relationships among words or phrases. For example, in the phrase "the big brown dog," the noun phrase "the big brown dog" branches out into its determiners, "the," and adjectives, "big" and "brown," which modify the head noun, "dog." Branching can be either right-branching or left-branching, depending on whether the additional elements appear to the right or left of the main element. Understanding branching is important for analyzing sentence structure, as it provides insights into how different components relate to each other within a sentence.

branching
01

分支的, 树枝状的

having branches
02

resembling the branches of a tree

word family

branch

Verb

branching

Adjective

unbranching

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