Formulaic Language in Native and Second Language Speakers: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and TESOL

By Nick C. Ellis, Rita Simpson-Vlach, C. Maynard. 2008

558 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• What Do We (Think We) Know About Formulaic Language? An Evaluation of the Current State of Play (2012, background): “Ellis et al. (2008) found that the processing speed of native speakers was more sensitive to the mutual information (MI) score of the words in a string than to the raw frequency of the string as a whole.3 The implication is that MI is a more sophisticated index of a user’s capacity to predict what…”
• The use of collocations by intermediate vs. advanced non-native writers: A bigram-based study (2014, result): “This result brings support to Ellis et al.’s (2008) view of L2 phraseology as primarily influenced by n-gram fre quency as opposed to native speaker phraseology which relies more on the mutual information score of the string:”
• To what extent do native and non-native writers make use of collocations? (2009, background): “Coming from a rather different angle, Ellis and his colleagues (Ellis et al. 2008) provide psycholinguistic evidence for the importance of high frequency collocations to non-native speakers and the importance of collocations with high MI scores to natives: while native speaker speed of processing of”
• A Phrasal Expressions List (2012, background): “Whereas formulaic language was once considered a peripheral phenomenon (Ellis et al. 2008), research has now established that it is fundamental to the way language is used, processed, and acquired in both the L1 and L2.”
• Examining second language receptive knowledge of collocation and factors that affect learning (2017, background): “Although Ellis, Simpson-Vlach, and Maynard (2008) did not find that mutual information scores influence the rate of processing of L2 academic formulas by L2 learners, its use as a tool for selecting collocations in research and the classroom suggests that there may be value in further investigating…”
• Digging up the building blocks of language: Age-of-acquisition effects for multiword phrases (2017, background): “…2007;Moore & Valentine, 1998); AoA effects are found in lab conditions where both cumulative frequency and AoA are fully controlled (Stewart & Ellis, 2008); and AoA effects are not larger in older adults compared to younger ones, as predicted by the cumulative frequency hypothesis (Morrison…”