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    "pk": 27278,
    "title": "Chunking Ability Shapes Sentence Processing at Multiple Levels of Abstraction",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Several recent empirical findings have reinforced the notion\nthat a basic learning and memory skill—chunking—plays a\nfundamental role in language processing. Here, we provide\nevidence that chunking shapes sentence processing at multiple\nlevels of linguistic abstraction, consistent with a recent\ntheoretical proposal by Christiansen and Chater (2016).\nIndividual differences in chunking ability at two different\nlevels is shown to predict on-line sentence processing in\nseparate ways: i) phonological chunking ability, as assessed\nby a variation on the non-word repetition task, predicts\nprocessing of complex sentences featuring phonological\noverlap; ii) multiword chunking ability, as assessed by a\nvariation on the serial recall task, is shown to predict reading\ntimes for sentences featuring long-distance number agreement\nwith locally distracting number-marked nouns. Together, our\nfindings suggest that individual differences in chunking\nability shape language processing at multiple levels of\nabstraction, consistent with the notion of language acquisition\nas learning to process.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "sentence processing; chunking; learning;\nmemory; usage-based approach; language"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75v9j2fc",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Stewart",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "McCauley",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Liverpool",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Erin",
            "middle_name": "S.",
            "last_name": "Isbilen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Cornell University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Morten",
            "middle_name": "H.",
            "last_name": "Christiansen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Cornell University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}