History
The use and memorization of both nonsense and meaningful alphanumeric material has had a long history in psychology beginning with Hermann Ebbinghaus. Since then, numerous studies have established that not only are both meaningful and nonsense “words” easily forgotten, but that both their forgetting curves are exponential with time. Chomsky advocates meaning as arising from semantic features, leading to the idea of “concept formation” in the 1930s.
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