Outputs (53)

EXPRESS: Stratified Distributional Analysis -- a Novel Perspective on RT Distributions (2024)
Journal Article
Thul, R., Marsh, J., Dijkstra, T., & Conklin, K. (2024). EXPRESS: Stratified Distributional Analysis -- a Novel Perspective on RT Distributions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241288516

Response times and their distributions serve as a powerful lens into cognitive processes. We present a novel statistical methodology called Stratified Distributional Analysis (SDA) to quantitatively assess how key determinants of response times (word... Read More about EXPRESS: Stratified Distributional Analysis -- a Novel Perspective on RT Distributions.

The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions (2024)
Journal Article
Cotgrove, L., Thul, R., & Conklin, K. (in press). The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions. Internet Pragmatics,

There has been an explosion in social media use, with Statista estimating that worldwide, Facebook has over 3 billion regular active users, YouTube 2.5 billion, and Instagram and WhatsApp 2 billion. While social media allows one to connect and intera... Read More about The Conversationality Index: A quantitative assessment of conversation in social media interactions.

Effects of Pre‐Reading Study and Reading Exposure on the Learning and Processing of Collocations (2023)
Journal Article
Altamimi, A., & Conklin, K. (2023). Effects of Pre‐Reading Study and Reading Exposure on the Learning and Processing of Collocations. TESOL Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3268

Little is known about the effect of pre-reading exposure on collocational learning. This study used eye-tracking and offline measures (form recall and recognition) to explore the effectiveness of pre-reading study and reading exposure on the processi... Read More about Effects of Pre‐Reading Study and Reading Exposure on the Learning and Processing of Collocations.

Eye-tracking reading-while-listening: Challenges and methodological considerations in vocabulary research (2023)
Journal Article
Conklin, K., & Alotaibi, S. (2023). Eye-tracking reading-while-listening: Challenges and methodological considerations in vocabulary research. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2(3), Article 100086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100086

Learners need to know a considerable number of words to function in a second or foreign language. To help increase their word knowledge, learners are encouraged to engage in activities that provide a rich source of vocabulary like listening to music... Read More about Eye-tracking reading-while-listening: Challenges and methodological considerations in vocabulary research.

What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Mastropierro, L., & Conklin, K. (2023). What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis. Language and Literature, 32(4), 437-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470231202263

This paper combines reader-response analysis and stylistic insights to investigate what may be triggering perceptions of racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It presents the results of a survey that asked participants to read extracts from th... Read More about What triggers perceptions of racism in Heart of Darkness? A reader-response analysis.

Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation? (2022)
Journal Article
Kyriacou, M., Conklin, K., & Thompson, D. (2023). Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation?. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(3), 212–226. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000300

Ambiguous but canonical idioms (kick the bucket) are processed fast in both their figurative (“die”) and literal (“boot the pail”) senses, although processing costs associated with meaning integration may emerge in postidiom regions. Modified version... Read More about Ambiguity Resolution in Passivized Idioms: Is There a Shift in the Most Likely Interpretation?.

Word and Multiword Processing (2022)
Book Chapter
Conklin, K., & Thul, R. (2022). Word and Multiword Processing. In A. Godfroid, & H. Hopp (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics (203-215). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018872-20

When we encounter linguistic input, both spoken and written, we need to identify words and multiword sequences (e.g., “spill the beans” meaning “to reveal a secret”), ascertain their meaning, and integrate them into our unfolding understanding of a s... Read More about Word and Multiword Processing.

“Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context (2022)
Journal Article
Sonbul, S., El-Dakhs, D. A. S., Conklin, K., & Carrol, G. (2023). “Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(2), 370-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263122000237

Little is known about how non-native speakers process novel language patterns in the input they encounter. The present study examines whether non-natives develop a sensitivity to novel binomials and their ordering preference from context. Thirty-nine... Read More about “Bread and butter” or “butter and bread”? Nonnatives’ processing of novel lexical patterns in context.

Word order effect in collocation processing (2021)
Journal Article
Vilkaitė-Lozdienė, L., & Conklin, K. (2021). Word order effect in collocation processing. Mental Lexicon, 16(2-3), 362-396. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.20022.vil

Collocations are words associated because of their frequent co-occurrence, which makes them predictable and leads to facilitated processing. While there have been suggestions that collocations are stored as unanalysed chunks, other researchers disagr... Read More about Word order effect in collocation processing.

'Did You See That?' - The Role of Repetition and Enhancement on Lexical Bundle Processing in English Learning Materials (2021)
Journal Article
Northbrook, J., Allen, D., & Conklin, K. (2022). 'Did You See That?' - The Role of Repetition and Enhancement on Lexical Bundle Processing in English Learning Materials. Applied Linguistics, 43(3), 453-472. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amab063

For second-language learners, the use of formulaic language can benefit processing. Previous studies have explored the development of a 'processing advantage' for lexical bundles and investigated whether learning materials can be optimized via repeti... Read More about 'Did You See That?' - The Role of Repetition and Enhancement on Lexical Bundle Processing in English Learning Materials.