I was just in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. Let’s talk next week!

The paper is a collaborative effort with Ram Frost, @bogaertslab.bsky.social, Art Samuel, @jimmagnuson.bsky.social, and Lori Holt

Results are presented from a lab-based cultural evolution, computational modeling, and psycholinguistic experimentation. Together, these studies suggest that cultural evolution, constrained by chunk-based learning and processing mechanisms, has shaped the emergence of linguistic structure 4/4

He argues that, to deal with this Now-or-Never bottleneck, the brain must incrementally chunk and integrate the linguistic input as rapidly as possible before it is gone. This perspective has profound implications for the nature of language processing, acquisition, and evolution. 3/4

During normal linguistic interaction, we are faced with an immense challenge by the combined effects of rapid input, short retention of sensory information, and severely limited sequence memory. How, then, can the brain successfully handle the continual deluge of linguistic input? 2/4