Phrase structure rules

Phrase structure rule - rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax, used to break down a natural language sentence into its syntactic categories (both lexical and phrasal); used in transformational grammar; first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957. Article “Phrase structure rules” in English Wikipedia has 28.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Phrase structure rules”, its content was written by 70 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 91 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 58 times in English Wikipedia and cited 111 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #419 in March 2002
• Global: #522 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #118170 in November 2017
• Global: #194438 in November 2017

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 片語結構規則		32.2508
2	English (en) Phrase structure rules		28.0703
3	Japanese (ja) 句構造規則		23.3668
4	Czech (cs) Frázové pravidlo		22.4177
5	Portuguese (pt) Regras de estrutura frasal		17.566
6	Catalan (ca) Regles de reescriptura		2.0673

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Phrase structure rules" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phrase structure rules		1 122 061
2	Japanese (ja) 句構造規則		72 477
3	Portuguese (pt) Regras de estrutura frasal		39 561
4	Chinese (zh) 片語結構規則		4 966
5	Catalan (ca) Regles de reescriptura		2 144
6	Czech (cs) Frázové pravidlo		748

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Phrase structure rules" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Phrase structure rules		2 050
2	Japanese (ja) 句構造規則		302
3	Chinese (zh) 片語結構規則		63
4	Portuguese (pt) Regras de estrutura frasal		38
5	Czech (cs) Frázové pravidlo		10
6	Catalan (ca) Regles de reescriptura		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Phrase structure rules" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Phrase structure rules		70
2	Portuguese (pt) Regras de estrutura frasal		9
3	Japanese (ja) 句構造規則		6
4	Chinese (zh) 片語結構規則		3
5	Catalan (ca) Regles de reescriptura		2
6	Czech (cs) Frázové pravidlo		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Phrase structure rules" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Regles de reescriptura		0
2	Czech (cs) Frázové pravidlo		0
3	English (en) Phrase structure rules		0
4	Japanese (ja) 句構造規則		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Regras de estrutura frasal		0
6	Chinese (zh) 片語結構規則		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Phrase structure rules" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Phrase structure rules		58
2	Japanese (ja) 句構造規則		30
3	Chinese (zh) 片語結構規則		11
4	Portuguese (pt) Regras de estrutura frasal		6
5	Czech (cs) Frázové pravidlo		5
6	Catalan (ca) Regles de reescriptura		1

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Regles de reescriptura
cs	Czech Frázové pravidlo
en	English Phrase structure rules
ja	Japanese 句構造規則
pt	Portuguese Regras de estrutura frasal
zh	Chinese 片語結構規則

Best Rank

English: #118170 11.2017

Global: #194438 11.2017

Best Rank

English: #419 03.2002

Global: #522 03.2002

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