On the Cognitive Characteristics of Language Chunks

DOI

10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.48How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language chunks; open-choice principle; retrieval; idiomaticity; generating capacity

Abstract

Language chunks refer to the fixed or half fixed structure of vocabulary words and sentences, which is stored in the brain as a whole, and exert an influence on language output. In First Language Acquisition, children experienced a stage at which unanalyzed language chunks were heavily used in a particular context; Second Language Acquisition also follows the same natural path. This path shows that language chunks acquisition is the center of language acquisition. This article has discovered that language chunks have strong language generating capacity: the use of them can accelerate the rate of language processing, improve the quality of the language output and promote learners language fluency and idiomaticity.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - L.H. Ma
AU  - Y. Li
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - On the Cognitive Characteristics of Language Chunks
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 198
EP  - 200
SN  - 2352-5398
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