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Size and depth of vocabulary knowledge: what the research shows (2014)
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Schmitt, N. (2014). Size and depth of vocabulary knowledge: what the research shows. Language Learning, 64(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12077

When discussing vocabulary, a distinction is often made between size of vocabulary (number of known words) and depth of knowledge (how well those words are known). However, the relationship between the two constructs is still unclear. Some scholars a... Read More about Size and depth of vocabulary knowledge: what the research shows.

Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus (2014)
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Smith, C., Adolphs, S., Harvey, K., & Mullany, L. (2014). Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus. Corpora, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2014.0055

The abundance of language data that is now available in digital form, and the rise of distinct language varieties that are used for digital communication, means that issues of non-standard spellings and spelling errors are, in future, likely to becom... Read More about Spelling errors and keywords in born-digital data: a case study using the Teenage Health Freak Corpus.

Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts (2014)
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Mahlberg, M., Conklin, K., & Bisson, M. (2014). Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts. Language and Literature, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947014543887

This article reports the findings of an empirical study that uses eye-tracking and follow-up interviews as methods to investigate how participants read body language clusters in novels by Charles Dickens. The study builds on previous corpus stylistic... Read More about Reading Dickens’s characters: employing psycholinguistic methods to investigate the cognitive reality of patterns in texts.

The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary (2014)
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Bisson, M., van Heuven, W. J., Conklin, K., & Tunney, R. J. (2014). The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary. Language Learning, 64(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12085

Prior research has reported incidental vocabulary acquisition with complete beginners in a foreign language (FL), within 8 exposures to auditory and written FL word forms presented with a picture depicting their meaning. However, important questions... Read More about The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary.

A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching (2014)
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Schmitt, N., & Schmitt, D. (2014). A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching. Language Teaching, 47(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444812000018

The high-frequency vocabulary of English has traditionally been thought to consist of the 2,000 most frequent word families, and low-frequency vocabulary as that beyond the 10,000 frequency level. This paper argues that these boundaries should be rea... Read More about A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching.

Getting your wires crossed: evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2 (2014)
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Carrol, G., & Conklin, K. (2014). Getting your wires crossed: evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728913000795

Monolingual speakers show priming for idiomatic sequences (e.g. a pain in the neck) relative to matched controls (e.g. a pain in the foot); single word translation equivalents show cross-language activation (e.g. dog–chien) for bilinguals. If the lex... Read More about Getting your wires crossed: evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2.

"An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction (2014)
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Jordan, S. (2014). "An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction. International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2014.932390

While the investigation of creative writing as a research method is gathering apace, little work has been done into the specific case of hypertext fiction (fiction written through a digital medium). This paper argues that, while there remain certain... Read More about "An infinitude of Possible Worlds": towards a research method for hypertext fiction.

Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India (2014)
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Ni Fhlathuin, M. (2014). Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India. Victorian Literature and Culture, 42(3), 573-593. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150314000151

This essay examines the reception of Byron’s work, and some responses to it, among the poets of the British community in India during the first half of the nineteenth century. The first section sketches some of the routes by which Byron’s work and a... Read More about Transformations of Byron in the literature of British India.

CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus (2014)
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Knight, D., Adolphs, S., & Carter, R. (2014). CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus. Corpora, 9(1), 29-56. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2014.0050

This paper reports on the construction of the Cambridge and Nottingham e-language Corpus (CANELC). This corpus has been built as part of a collaborative project between the University of Nottingham and Cambridge University Press with whom sole cop... Read More about CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus.

CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus (2014)
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Knight, D., Adolphs, S., & Carter, R. (2014). CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus. Corpora, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2014.0050

This paper reports on the construction of CANELC: the Cambridge and Nottingham e-language Corpus.3 CANELC is a one million word corpus of digital communication in English, taken from online discussion boards, blogs, tweets, emails and SMS messages. T... Read More about CANELC: constructing an e-language corpus.

Waxing into words: Virginia Woolf and the Westminster Abbey funeral effigies (2014)
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Kore Schroder, L. (2014). Waxing into words: Virginia Woolf and the Westminster Abbey funeral effigies

This articles derives its methodology from an analysis of the figures in the historical collection of royal funeral effigies in Westminster Abbey, London. As historical representations these resist categorisation: are they to be read as human and pro... Read More about Waxing into words: Virginia Woolf and the Westminster Abbey funeral effigies.

"Not an idle spectator": Geoffrey Hill as model reviewer (2014)
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Vincent, B. (2014). "Not an idle spectator": Geoffrey Hill as model reviewer. Diogenes, 60(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0392192113520095

Geoffrey Hill’s prose has prompted longstanding critical controversy, much of which turns on the perceived difficulty, intransigence and anachronism of his oeuvre as a whole. This paper proposes that new ways to navigate this controversy can be found... Read More about "Not an idle spectator": Geoffrey Hill as model reviewer.

Jumping from the highest graded readers to ungraded novels: four case studies (2014)
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Uden, J., Schmitt, D., & Schmitt, N. (2014). Jumping from the highest graded readers to ungraded novels: four case studies

This study follows a small group of learners in the UK to the end of a graded reading program using the Cambridge Readers and investigates whether this particular graded reading series provides a bridge to reading unsimplified novels for pleasure. Th... Read More about Jumping from the highest graded readers to ungraded novels: four case studies.

"You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic (2014)
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Kirwan, P. (2014). "You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic. Shakespeare Bulletin, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2014.0009

This article addresses the construction of Shakespearean reputation and legacy in contemporary film through re-evaluation of the much-derided Anonymous (Roland Emmerich, 2011), in addition to John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998). In both films, t... Read More about "You have no voice!": Constructing reputation through contemporaries in the Shakespeare biopic.

‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time (2014)
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Collins, C. (2014). ‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time

This essay considers Synge’s staging of the caoine (keen) in Riders to the Sea(1904). It argues that the caoine in Riders to the Sea is not simply an aesthetic and unethical fetishization of pre-Christian cultural residue predicated on class insecuri... Read More about ‘The Cries of Pagan Desperation’: Synge, Riders to the Sea and the discontents of historical time.