A commentary on "The now-or-never bottleneck: a fundamental constraint on language", by Christiansen and Chater (2016)
This is an incremental commentary that addresses a fundamental constraint in language processing for researchers in linguistics and cognitive science.
The paper explores additional support for the now-or-never bottleneck constraint on language, which arises from fleeting memory, and suggests further connections from quantitative linguistics and information theory.
In a recent article, Christiansen and Chater (2016) present a fundamental constraint on language, i.e. a now-or-never bottleneck that arises from our fleeting memory, and explore its implications, e.g., chunk-and-pass processing, outlining a framework that promises to unify different areas of research. Here we explore additional support for this constraint and suggest further connections from quantitative linguistics and information theory.