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A-Z 181Referencestransformational grammarChomsky hierarchygenerative capacityChukchiPaleo-SiberianChukotko-KamchatkanPaleo-Siberianchunk(ing)Term introduced by Miller and Selfridge (1950), and again by Miller (1956), in memoryresearch to denote the (individually differing) segmentation and bundling of informationunits. Based on such a schematization of knowledge, which depends on personalexperience or expert knowledge, it is quite plausible that the capacity to rememberinformation is variable: a professional chess player will be able to recall the positions of aparticular move (that was just played out before one’s eyes) much more completely thana novice player, since the professional chess player can engage his/her command of therules for chunking (to structure the information of the playing board).ReferencesMiller, G.A. 1956. The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity forprocessing information. PsychologR 63. 81–97.Miller, G.A. and J.A.Selfridge. 1950. Verbal context and the recall of meaningful material.American Journal of Psychology 63. 176–85.comprehensibility