“…According to Coots and David (1984), "the ideal unit of surface analysis is a major phrase or clause because these units satisfy two requirements of a short-term store: they correspond to a meaningful grouping capable of semantic representation; grouping words into constituent units is important in comprehension because it facilitates the transfer of information from surface to semantic presentation via the limited capacity of a short-term memory processor." Based on this rationale, reading in chunks will benefit the reading process since it smoothes the transfer from linguistic forms to conceptual representation.…”