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Chunk‐Based Memory Constraints on the Cultural Evolution of Language
Topics in Cognitive Science 12 (2):713-726 (2018)
Abstract
How linguistic structures evolve so as to become easier to process is addressed by Isbilen and Christiansen for the Now‐or‐Never bottleneck. The authors suggest that this fundamental challenge in language processing is coped with by rapid compression of the transient linguistic input into chunks then to be passed on. As linguistic structures that can be chunked more easily tend to stabilize and proliferate, language evolves to fit learners’ cognitive capabilities.My notes
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