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By these means repeated sequences become more fluent. Within a chunk, sequential links are graded in strength based on the frequency of the chunk or perhaps the transitions between the elements of a chunk. A construction is a chunk even though it may contain schematic slots, that is, the elements of a chunk can be interrupted.

Memory storage requires links to connect idiomatic phrases together. In chunking, repeated sequences are represented together as units which can be accessed directly.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ellis |first1=Nick C. |title="Sequencing in SLA: Phonological Memory, Chunking and Points of Order." |journal=Studies in Second Language Acquisition |date=1996 |volume=18/1 |page=91–126|doi=10.1017/S0272263100014698 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journalbook |last1=Newell |first1=Allen |title=Unified Theories of Cognition. |___location=Cambridge |journalpublisher=MIT Press |date=1990 |isbn=9780674921016}}</ref> Through this, repeated sequences are more frequent. Sequential links are assessed in strength based on the frequency of the chunk or transitions between elements within a chunk. Additionally, the individual elements of a chunk can link to elements in other contexts. The example of ‘drive someone crazy’ forms a chunk, however items that compose it are not analyzable individually as words that occur elsewhere in cognitive representation. As chunks are used more frequently, words can lose their associations with exemplars of the same word. This is known as [[de-categorialization]].