Your understanding of the function served by KEY in the phrase "the key opened the door" is most closely related to which theoretical view of language processing?
A)Craik & Lockhart's "depth of processing" account
B)elaborative encoding
C)Chomsky's transformational grammar
D)the case grammar approach

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The case grammar approach focuses on the relationship between words in a sentence and their syntactic functions. In the phrase "the key opened the door," "key" is the subject and "door" is the object, indicating their grammatical roles in the sentence. The function of "key" as the subject in the sentence is best captured by the case grammar approach.

Your Understanding of the Function Served by KEY in the Phrase