Posts Tagged ‘chunks’
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Posted by Michael Rundell on October 11, 2010
The two previous posts in this series (see here and here) looked at the relevance of “chunking” in language production. In the last blog, I discussed collocation, and showed how integral it is to the use of a word like crime – to the extent that it is almost impossible to use the word without [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on October 07, 2010
It’s generally accepted that “chunking” – the tendency of words to form combinations which are both recurrent and non-random – is an important feature of language. But in some of the recent discussion of this topic, doubts have been raised as to how far these combinations are worth teaching. Some argue that learning large numbers [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on October 04, 2010
If you watch any episode of the British soap EastEnders, you can guarantee that someone will come out with the line “What’s that supposed to mean?”. The EastEnders scriptwriting team employ this expression so frequently that I suspect they have a button on their laptops that generates it at a single keystroke. There is no [...]
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