S018 1/2 | Chunks And Chunking – Offline And Online Perspectives

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Several lines of linguistic research have investigated chunks, i.e., recurrent multi-word sequences like I don't knowwhich are likely to be mentally represented as single units (for review, see Blumenthal-Dramé 2017). These approaches have mainly drawn on corpus data, which inherently reflect the results of past production processes (but see Sinclair & Mauranen 2006), effectively thus promoting an offline view on chunks. Conversely, psycholinguistic research has mainly focused on chunking (or segmentation) in incremental language comprehension, thereby adopting an online perspective on the phenomenon. However, many questions around the chunking process in online language comprehension are still under debate. The following questions serve as subthemes for the two parts of our symposium: 1. Synoptic and dynamic. What is the relationship between the 'production chunks' identified in corpus research and the 'comprehension chunks' highlighted by psycholinguistic experiments? How much variation is there in terms of size and mode? 2. Constraints and variability. How do variables like working memory or the typological makeup of a language modulate online chunking (Stine-Morrow & Payne, 2016; McCauley & Christiansen, 2019). Do different languages chunk alike? The symposium explores these questions from cognitive, psycholinguistic and applied linguistic perspectives towards an integrated understanding of chunking.

08:30-09:00: LIVE INTRODUCTION by Anna Mauranen and Alice Blumenthal-Dramé
09:30-10:00:"Theorising chunks from a corpus perspective" by Susan Hunston
10:00-10:30: LIVE DISCUSSION
10:30-12:00:
- "Electrophysiological Cycles as Neural Constraints on Chunking " by Lars Meyer
- "Spontaneous chunking while writing: Semantic and constructional highlights" by Georgeta Cislaru
- "Individual differences in chunk boundary perception" by Svetlana Vetchinnikova
12:00-12:30: LIVE DISCUSSION

Virtual Session Symposium

August 20, 2021 08:30 AM - August 20, 2022 12:00 Noon(Europe/Amsterdam)

Venue : Room 1

20210820T0830 20210820T1200 Europe/Amsterdam S018 1/2 | Chunks and chunking – offline and online perspectives Several lines of linguistic research have investigated chunks, i.e., recurrent multi-word sequences like I don't knowwhich are likely to be mentally represented as single units (for review, see Blumenthal-Dramé 2017). These approaches have mainly drawn on corpus data, which inherently reflect the results of past production processes (but see Sinclair & Mauranen 2006), effectively thus promoting an offline view on chunks. Conversely, psycholinguistic research has mainly focused on chunking (or segmentation) in incremental language comprehension, thereby adopting an online perspective on the phenomenon. However, many questions around the chunking process in online language comprehension are still under debate. The following questions serve as subthemes for the two parts of our symposium: 1. Synoptic and dynamic. What is the relationship between the 'production chunks' identified in corpus research and the 'comprehension chunks' highlighted by psycholinguistic experiments? How much variation is there in terms of size and mode? 2. Constraints and variability. How do variables like working memory or the typological makeup of a language modulate online chunking (Stine-Morrow & Payne, 2016; McCauley & Christiansen, 2019). Do different languages chunk alike? The symposium explores these questions from cognitive, psycholinguistic and applied linguistic perspectives towards an integrated understanding of chunking. 08:30-09:00: LIVE INTRODUCTION by Anna Mauranen and Alice Blumenthal-Dramé09:30-10:00:"Theorising chunks from a corpus perspective" by Susan Hunston10:00-10:30: LIVE DISCUSSION10:30-12:00:"Electrophysiological Cycles as Neural Constraints on Chunking " by Lars Meyer"Spontaneous chunking while writing: Semantic and constructional highlights" by Georgeta Cislaru"I ... Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nl

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Theorising chunks from a corpus perspective

Featured 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 10:00:00 UTC

The concept of chunk covers a wide range of phenomena that have been identified from the observation of corpora. This paper considers the relation between these phenomena and the relation between the phenomena and theories of language as a mental or social construct.

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Electrophysiological Cycles as Neural Constraints on Chunking

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Studies on ambiguity suggest that chunking is time-constrained. Neuroscientific work suggests that the brain processes information in discrete time windows provided by electrophysiological cycles. We found cycles in the order of seconds to affect ambiguity resolution, and thus chunking. Cycles, duration-confined by anatomical principles, may be a neural chunking bottleneck.

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Spontaneous chunking while writing: semantic and constructional highlights

Standard 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 10:00:00 UTC

This paper takes the point of view of the performance in order to i) question the nature and the mechanisms of chunks and chunking while writing; ii) describe what we call here 'performance units', i.e. text sequences spontaneously produced between two pauses, in terms of constructional regularities

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Individual differences in chunk boundary perception

Standard 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 10:00:00 UTC

The chunkedness of language is assumed to be rooted in the properties of cognitive processing. Yet, we commonly investigate chunking using data aggregated from a population sample. This paper examines the extent to which individuals rely on different cues when processing chunks in natural speech.

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