title: Gestalt-like representations hijack Chunk-and-Pass processing.
abstract: Christiansen & Chater (C&C) make two related and somewhat contradictory claims, namely that the ever abstract language representations built during Chunk-and-Pass processing allow for ever greater interference from extra-linguistic information, and that it is nevertheless the language system that re-codes incoming information into abstract representations. I analyse these claims and discuss evidence suggesting that Gestalt-like representations hijack Chunk-and-Pass processing.
authors: Department of Cognitive Science,Macquarie University,Sydney NSW 2109,Australiamagda.dumitru@gmail.com.
authors: Magda L
authors: ML
authors: Dumitru
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics