 A sentence like (1) will not typically be produced with the pauses indicated in (2), where the pauses "interrupt" syntactic constituents.For example, pausing between "the" and "dog" would interrupt the determiner phrase (DP) constituent, as would pausing between "his" and "hand".Most often, pauses are placed so as to group the utterance into chunks that correspond to the beginnings and ends of constituents such as determiner phrases (DPs), verb phrases (VPs), and prepositional phrases (PPs).