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Formal Grammar
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This study develops a formal grammar that captures the modern speaker’s scansion of classical Chinese verse and accounts for his intuitive judgment of the metrical harmony. The central proposal is that the grammar is represented by the coexistence of the five minimally different sub-grammars in which the cognitively oriented reading experience can be grounded. The grammar is couched in the Optimality Theory framework and the empirical basis is constituted by a corpus of 3933 lines randomly selected from five major genres of classical Chinese verse spanning more than 2000 years. The corpus obviously offers a fertile ground for exploration from various angles, and the present study focuses on only one aspect, namely, the development of the above-stated grammar. Other related topics such as the historical dimension of the verse grammar are ... briefly addressed.
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Formal grammars were invented as a method of describing allowable one dimensional sequences of symbols (Hofstadter, 1979:130). Ballroom dancing may be viewed in this way (Herbison-Evans, 1989:3). Due to the geometrical constraints of space and gravity, and the desire to maintain aesthetic connection to the musical rhythm in time, there are limitations on which steps can follow each other. These constraints can be described by a grammar.
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This grammar is intended to help make SGML more comprehensible for formal manipulation. For this reason, a number of simplifications have been undertaken, which are described below in section 39.8 Differences from ISO 8879. These simplifications may cause this grammar to accept some documents not accepted by the official grammar. As far as is known... the grammar provided here will recognize any valid SGML document in the TEI Interchange Format.
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The application of formal grammars to multidimensional structures is described. A previous article by Myers attempting to formalise the grammar of the Foxtrot is considered. A brief history and description of the Foxtrot (Blues, Rhythm) is given. A subset of the dance is described in terms of six constraints on the movements. A context free grammar for this basic Foxtrot is proposed which accommodates the constraints. It consists of 66 productions including 16 terminal symbols.
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For ease in relating this grammar to the formal grammar defined in ISO 8879, comments for each group here give the numbers of the related productions in that grammar. Where the changes to SGML syntax suggested by the SGML working group in its document ISO/IEC JTC1 / SC18 / WG8 / N1035 would affect the productions here, that fact is noted after the affected production.
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