mischunk

verb

mischunk

verb

Etymology From mis- + chunk.

1

To chunk incorrectly.

We will present a number of examples suggesting this type of 'mischunking' below.1993, Robert Schreuder, Bert Weltens, The Bilingual Lexicon, page 204:
There is no longer any temptation to mischunk the text.1997, Rebecca E. Burnett, Technical Communication, page 216:

1 more example

On the other hand, some PP-attachments are multiply ambiguous (they have more than two possible attachment sites) or occur fronted in a sentence-initial position, or a participant in the PP-relation is mistagged or mischunked.2003, G Schneider, “Learning to disambiguate syntactic relations”, in Computational Linguistics, volume 17, number 5:

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