Workshop subject: Chunking as a mechanism in language processing, change & acquisition

Topics will include:

• Frequencies, chunking, entrenchment, schematization: What are the processes and products?
• Perception & processing: Does everything that we can count in language count in language cognition and acquisition?
• Corpus-based & psycholinguistic/experimental chunking studies: What is a chunk?

For a summary of the workshop, a related current background review paper by Nick Ellis and some further materials related to the workshop topics please refer to: http://web.me.com/ncellis/FreiburgChunking

Thursday, June 23rd: "The Psychology of Chunking"

10:15 - 12:00      Talk "Chunking as sequence learning" & Discussion

12:30                   Lunch

14:15 - 15:45      Talk "Chunking across Modalities" & Discussion

15:45 - 16:15      Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:00      Final Discussion "The Psychology of Chunking"

19:30                   Dinner

Friday, June 24th: "Chunking Language"

10:15 - 12:00      Talk "Chunks, Formulas, Collocations" & Discussion

12:30                   Lunch

14:15 - 15:45      Talk "Chunking and the Emergence of Language as a Complex

                            Adaptive System" & Discussion of current research projects

15:45 - 16:15      Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:00      Final Discussion "Chunking Language"

Furthermore, there will be a possibility for one-on-one discussions of current PhD and other research projects with Prof. Nick Ellis. If interested, please contact karin.madlener@frequenz.uni-freiburg.de.