SOURCE: MARTIN & ROSE 2007: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HbzWny2YTpRJMFeezoSrkNgRepTu6bdI/view
Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA) is a linguistic method for breaking down sentences into their smallest meaningful parts, known as constituents. This analysis involves recursively dividing a sentence into immediate constituents until reaching irreducible units, typically words or morphemes. For example, the sentence "The boy is walking" can be divided into "the boy" and "is walking," which can be further analyzed into "the" + "boy" and "is" + "walking." ICA helps clarify grammatical structures and reduce ambiguity in language[1][2][4].
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