Why does retrieval failure occur when bilinguals attempt to recall infrequent idioms during rapid speech?

💡 Explanation

Chunk interference degrades familiar collocations because concurrent activation of both languages disrupts retrieval pathways for less frequent idioms. Therefore, recall fails in rapid speech due to competition between stored linguistic chunks, rather than simple phonological decay or semantic satiation.

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