NYT On Language: Chunking - 4 views
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Ryan Catalani on 20 Sep 10"In recent decades, the study of language acquisition and instruction has increasingly focused on "chunking": how children learn language not so much on a word-by-word basis but in larger "lexical chunks" or meaningful strings of words that are committed to memory ... A native speaker picks up thousands of chunks like "heavy rain" or "make yourself at home" in childhood, and psycholinguistic research suggests that these phrases are stored and processed in the brain as individual units."
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Lisa Stewart on 20 Sep 10Good find, Ryan! I also took the video link and embedded it into our moodle page.