rewriterule

re·write·rule

Linguistics.
a phrase-structure rule in a generative grammar, shown as an instruction to replace or rewrite a single symbol, representing a syntactic structure, on the left with one or more symbols, representing the constituents of the structure, on the right, as in S → NP + VP, where S (sentence) is to be replaced with its constituents NP (noun phrase) and VP (verb phrase).
Also, rewriting rule.
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Rewriterule is always a great word to know.
So is phrase structure. Does it mean:
a movement in pitch serving to distinguish two words otherwise composed of the same sounds
the hierarchical arrangement of the constituent words and phrases of a sentence
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