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Language evolution

proposal that because linguistic input fades almost immediately, the language system must chunk and recode it at once, shaping processing, acquisition and structure.

In language evolution, now-or-never bottleneck refers to proposal that because linguistic input fades almost immediately, the language system must chunk and recode it at once, shaping processing, acquisition and structure. This meaning comes from Christiansen (2015) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.[1]

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References

Christiansen, M. H., & Chater, N. (2015). The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1500031x

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