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S018 2/2 | 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.


  • 14:30-15:30: 
    • "Are Chunk sizes the same across different languages?" by Aleksandra Dobrego, Alena Konina, and Mauranen Anna
    • "What role do pauses play in chunking across different languages?" by Alena Konina, Aleksandra Dobrego, and Mauranen Anna
    • "Chunking in Romance – what corpus research and experimental research tell us about it"by Birgit Füreder
  • 15:30-16:00: LIVE DISCUSSION
  • 16:00-17:30: 
    • "The Impact of Compositionality on the Learnability of Fusional and Agglutinating Word Structures" by Svenja Wagner
    • "L1 Chinese L2 English learners' acquisition of English collocations: online and offline perspectives" by Sijing Fu
    • "Processing L2 formulaic sequences in writing" by Katja Mäntylä, Sinikka Lahtinen, Outi Toropainen, and Mari Mäkilä
    • "Chunking in Second Language Production: Insights from Keystroke Logging" Joo Hyun Lee, Daniel Wiechmann and Elma Kerz
  • 17:30-18:00: LIVE DISCUSSION
August 20, 2021 02:30 PM - August 20, 2022 06:00 PM(Europe/Amsterdam)
Venue : Room 1
20210820T1430 20210820T1800 Europe/Amsterdam S018 2/2 | 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.

14:30-15:30: "Are Chunk sizes the same across different languages?" by Aleksandra Dobrego, Alena Konina, and Mauranen Anna"What role do pauses play in chunking across different languages?" by Alena Konina, Aleksandra Dobrego, and Mauranen Anna"Chunking in Romance – what corpus research and experimental research tell us about it"by Birgit Füreder15:30-16:0 ...

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Are chunk sizes the same across different languages?

StandardAILA Symposium 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 16:00:00 UTC
Our study aims at examining cross-linguistic differences in naturalistic speech perception. We hypothesised that size of chunks in Swedish, Russian and Finnish is affected by differences in the structure of these languages. We chose extracts of spontaneous spoken speech and asked native speakers to mark boundaries between speech segments. We operationalised chunk size as the mean number of orthographic words between non-random boundaries placed by the participants. We found that the continuum of chunk size is highest for Swedish, followed by Russian, and shortest for Finnish. We  suggest that nature of a language have influenced participants' boundary choices. 




Presenters Aleksandra Dobrego
Doctoral Researcher, University Of Helsinki
Co-authors Alena Konina
Doctoral Student, University Of Helsinki
MA
Mauranen Anna
Symposium Convener, AFinLA

What role do pauses play in chunking across different languages?

Standard 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 16:00:00 UTC
We have conducted a cross-linguistic study investigating the role of pauses in online speech processing by Finnish, Swedish, and Russian speakers. We hypothesize that pauses have better potential to explain chunking behavior in Swedish compared to Russian and Finnish.
Presenters Alena Konina
Doctoral Student, University Of Helsinki
Co-authors Aleksandra Dobrego
Doctoral Researcher, University Of Helsinki
MA
Mauranen Anna
Symposium Convener, AFinLA

Chunking in Romance – what corpus research and experimental research tell us about it

FocusedAILA Symposium 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 16:00:00 UTC
Given the importance of chunks in language processing, the present paper investigates the 'chunking behaviour' of verbal periphrases in Romance. To this end, offline data from corpus research will be related to online data from reading behaviour, exploring the relationship between patterns of chunking in production and comprehension.
Presenters
BF
Birgit Füreder
University Of Salzburg

The Impact of Compositionality on the Learnability of Fusional and Agglutinating Word Structures

StandardAILA Symposium 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 16:00:00 UTC
Agglutinating structures are often predicted to be easier to learn than fusional structures due to compositional transparency. In a series of artificial language learning experiments, we test the importance of transparency and compositional structure as well as offline decomposition for the learnability of fusional and agglutinating structures of words expressing two grammatical features.
Presenters Svenja Wagner
Doctoral Student, University Of Edinburgh
Co-authors
JC
Jennifer Culbertson
University Of Edinburgh
KS
Kenny Smith
University Of Edinburgh

L1 Chinese L2 English learners’ acquisition of English collocations: online and offline perspectives

FocusedAILA Symposium 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 16:00:00 UTC
This study is in line with the theme of the symposium “Chunks and chunking—online and offline perspectives”. It used an online primed lexical decision task and an offline fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice task to investigate the processing and production of English collocations by L1 Chinese L2 English learners.
Presenters Sijing Fu
City University Of Hong Kong

Processing L2 formulaic sequences in writing

FocusedAILA Symposium 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 16:00:00 UTC
We discuss writers with typologically different L1s (Finnish/Swedish) and what they produce as sequences when writing in L2 English or L2 Swedish/Finnish, and in their L1. Keystroke logging programme reveals that L1 structures affect the production of sequences regardless of proficiency level, challenging prevailing views on learning and using FSs.
Presenters Katja Mäntylä
University Of Jyväskylä, Finland
Co-authors
SL
Sinikka Lahtinen
University Of Turku
OT
Outi Toropainen
Luleå University Of Techonology
MM
Mari Mäkilä
University Of Turku

Chunking in Second Language Production: Insights from Keystroke Logging

StandardAILA Symposium 02:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 12:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 16:00:00 UTC
This study demonstrates the role of chunking in the realm of second language writing. It presents a novel approach based on the analysis of large amounts of keystroke logging data. The statistics of the multi-word sequences in these texts provide direct evidence for a chunk-based production mechanism in written production.
Presenters Joo Hyun Lee
Cornell University / Currently Working At Omnis Labs Company
Daniel Wiechmann
Institute For Logic, Language And Computation, University Of Amsterdam
Co-authors
EK
Elma Kerz
RWTH Aachen University
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