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The present study represents an attempt to investigate the basis of subjective groupings of words in sentences, employing Edwin Martin's subjective phrase structure technique. Results indicate that subjects base their judgments not only on grammatical structure but also on constituent length and on stress and intonation patterns.
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Martin, E. (1970). Towards an analysis of subjective phrase structure.Psychol. Bull. 74, 153–166.
Martin, J., Kolodziej, B., and Genay, J. (1971). Segmentation of sentences into phonological phrases as a function of constituent length.J. Verb. Learn. Verb. Behav. 10, 226–233.
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A shorter version of this paper was presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association at McGill University, Montreal, May 1972.
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Bond, Z.S., Gray, J. Subjective phrase structure: An empirical investigation. J Psycholinguist Res 2, 259–266 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067105
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067105