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to establishing the direction of branching. Head-initial phrases are right-branching, head-final phrases are left-branching, and head-medial phrases combine left- and right-branching.

Basic examples

Examine the following expressions:

:::big red dog
:::birdsong

The word dog is the head of big red dog since it determines that the phrase is a noun phrase, not an adjective phrase.

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