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immediate constituent
im·me·di·ate con·stit·u·ent (plural im·me·di·ate con·stit·u·ents)


noun 
Definition:
 
first subdivision of linguistic unit: the first level into which a linguistic unit is analyzed, e.g. the subject and predicate as parts of a sentence
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