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Compositionality is a core property of human languages that sets them apart from other communication systems found in the animal world. But psycholinguistic evidence indicates that humans do not always decompose complex expressions in language processing. Redundant representations of compositional structure appear to be necessary to account for human linguistic capacities, a fact that should be reflected in any realistic language processing framework. This chapter presents an algorithm for dynamically combining multiple constructions into a single chunk in Fluid Construction Grammar. We further investigate where cases of spontaneous combinations of productive constructions occur in natural language, and discuss the relevance of redundant representations for experiments on artificial language evolution.
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Stadler, K. (2012). Chunking Constructions. In: Steels, L. (eds) Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7249. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34120-5_4
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