Example sentences of "word can be identified " in BNC.

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1 These beginnings , or prefixes , are checked against a lexicon , which is constructed in such a way that prefixes which will not produce legal words can be identified and pruned from the list .
2 For context , the problem is to explain how contextually anomalous words can be identified ( e.g. , Norris , 1981 ) …
3 Therefore , as soon as the phoneme /p/ is heard , the cohort will have only one member left , and the word can be identified as trespass , even though its final phonemes have not yet been heard .
4 Consequently , such a word can be identified only after the subject has heard phonemes occurring later than the target phoneme , and so reaction times will be long .
5 At this moment ( which occurs when a word 's recognition point is reached ) , the word can be identified , even if much more of the speech signal has yet to reach the word-recognition system .
6 As we saw , experiments by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) on auditory word recognition showed that a word can be identified more rapidly if it is predictable , that is , if there are syntactic and/or semantic constraints on the number of possible words which might occupy that particular position in a sentence .
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