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Poetics (2015)
Book Chapter
Stockwell, P. (2015). Poetics. In E. Dabrowska, & D. Divjak (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. de Gruyter Mouton

Cross language priming extends to formulaic units: evidence from eye-tracking suggests that this idea “has legs” (2015)
Journal Article
Carrol, G., & Conklin, K. (2017). Cross language priming extends to formulaic units: evidence from eye-tracking suggests that this idea “has legs”. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000103

Idiom priming effects (faster processing compared to novel phrases) are generally robust in native speakers but not non-native speakers. This leads to the question of how idioms and other multiword units are represented and accessed in a first (L1) a... Read More about Cross language priming extends to formulaic units: evidence from eye-tracking suggests that this idea “has legs”.

Chaucer the Puritan (2015)
Book Chapter
Jones, M. (2015). Chaucer the Puritan. In I. Davis, & C. Nall (Eds.), Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (165-184). Boydell & Brewer

Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Carrol, G., Conklin, K., Guy, J., & Scott, R. (2015). Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction. Scientific Study of Literature, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1075/ssol.5.2.05con

The digital era has brought with it a shift in the field of literary editing in terms of the amount and kind of textual variation that can reasonably be annotated by editors. However, questions remain about how far readers engage with textual variant... Read More about Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction.

Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging" (2015)
Journal Article
Jordan, S. (2015). Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging". Writing in Practice: the journal of creative writing research, 1,

This paper explores McQuire’s concept of "relational space", a term he uses to describe the transformed horizon of social relationships within the smart city. Although there is no exact definition, the smart city is predicated on both the rise of dig... Read More about Writing the smart city: "relational space" and the concept of "belonging".

How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments? (2015)
Journal Article
Collins, L. C. (2015). How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments?. Linguistik Online, 70(1), https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.70.1743

User comments in response to newspaper articles published online offer a unique resource for studying online discourse. The number of comments that articles often elicit poses many methodological challenges and analyses of online user comments have i... Read More about How can semantic annotation help us to analyse the discourse of climate change in online user comments?.

How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007) (2015)
Journal Article
Schmitt, N., Cobb, T., Horst, M., & Schmitt, D. (2015). How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007). Language Teaching, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444815000075

There is current research consensus that second language (L2) learners are able to adequately comprehend general English written texts if they know 98% of the words that occur in the materials. This important finding prompts an important question: Ho... Read More about How much vocabulary is needed to use English? Replication of van Zeeland & Schmitt (2012), Nation (2006) and Cobb (2007).