¤ Chunk ¤ In studies of language acquisition, its several words that are customarily used together in a fixed expression, such as in my opinion, to make a long story short, How are you? or Know what I mean? Its introduced as cognitive terms by psychologist George A. Miller in his paper The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information (1956). ¤ Can you find the chunk from sentences below: • Here is one that got away, and lived to tell the tale. • Oh, by the way, hows the Florence Henderson look working for you? • Once upon a time, there was a lovely princess. • The only thing Junior Singleton reads cover to cover is a matchbook. • It may be that across the immensity of space the Martians have watched the fate of these pioneers of theirs and learned their lesson, and that on the planet Venus they have found a securer settlement. Be that as it may, for many years yet there will certainly be no relaxation of the eager scrutiny of the Martian disk, and those fiery darts of the sky, the shooting stars, will bring with them as they fall an unavoidable apprehension. 3:) happy learning
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 06:32:03 +0000
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