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.
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 ... Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nlTechnical Issues?
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