Naomi Peck

List of John Benjamins publications in which Naomi Peck is involved.

Articles

Peck, Naomi 2026 Verbalisation and the One-New-Idea Constraint Functions of Language: Online-First Articles | Article

The One-New-Idea-Constraint (ONICON) is proposed to be an absolute universal on human cognitive capabilities. While the ONICON predicts that we maximally realise one new idea at a time, it does not account for the maximal amount of information that can be realised at any point in discourse. To… read more

Reinöhl, Uta and Naomi Peck 2026 The ‘idea’ in the one-new-idea constraint Functions of Language: Online-First Articles | Article

This paper offers a conceptual clarification and an operationalization of a classic functionalist generalization: the one-new-idea constraint (Chafe 1982, 1987, 1994). While often referenced, this constraint has not, to date, been sufficiently spelled-out or made sufficiently precise to become… read more

Reinöhl, Uta and Naomi Peck 2026 How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and the information–intonation interface Functions of Language: Online-First Articles | Introduction

This paper serves as an overview to the special issue focusing on Chafe’s one-new-idea constraint (ONICON). We provide an introduction to the constraint, the articles in the volume, and common themes discussed by the papers.