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[wangtesol]

Explaining language in terms of chunking makes much more sense when looking at First Nations languages in North and South America. I was taught prefixes, infixes, suffixes and circumfixes of Lushootseed, but would one really think that a native speaker of Lushootseed learned her language by learning all these afixes?

Of course not, so learning "walking around gathering fire wood" as one word, a chunk, just seems so unfackingbelievably obvious.