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Applied Linguistics 29/2: 200–222 Oxford University Press 2008 doi:10.1093/applin/amn007 The Mnemonic Effect of Noticing Alliteration in Lexical Chunks 1SETH LINDSTROMBERG and 2FRANK BOERS 1Hilderstone EFL College, 2Erasmus University College Brussels If good proficiency in L2 entails the acquisition not only of many single words but of many lexical chunks as well, it must then be asked how all this additional lexis is to be committed to long-term memory in the limited time available on non-intensive classroom-based la