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Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”? (2016)
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Guy, J., Scott, R., Conklin, K., & Carrol, G. (2016). Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”?. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 59(4), 435-455

Guy, Scott, Conklin, and Carrol join forces to analyze controversial questions about multi-volume variorum editions of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers such as Wilde, Conrad, Woolf, James, and Wyndam Lewis. What prompted such ambi... Read More about Challenges in editing late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century prose fiction: what is editorial “completeness”?.

Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception (2016)
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Buckler, H., & Fikkert, P. (2016). Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 540. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00540

Morphophonological alternations, such as the voicing alternation that arises in a morphological paradigm due to final-devoicing in Dutch, are notoriously difficult for children to acquire. This has previously been attributed to their unpredictability... Read More about Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception.

‘Outside of everything and everybody’: renegotiating place in the classroom (2016)
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Robinson, J. (in press). ‘Outside of everything and everybody’: renegotiating place in the classroom. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2016.1155406

This article examines a series of plays created by Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout Theatre in Education Company in the first years of the twenty-first century that aimed to respond to rising concerns about the impact of increasing numbers of refugees... Read More about ‘Outside of everything and everybody’: renegotiating place in the classroom.

The portormin (dunbeath) runestone (2016)
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Findell, M. (2016). The portormin (dunbeath) runestone. Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies, 6, 153-170

A stone with a short runic inscription was discovered on the beach at Portormin Harbour in Dunbeath, Caithness, in 1996. The find attracted some press attention at the time, but has been largely ignored by the runological com­mu­nity amid doubts over... Read More about The portormin (dunbeath) runestone.

Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG (2016)
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Thompson, D., Mackenzie, I. G., Leuthold, H., & Filik, R. (2016). Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG. Psychophysiology, 53(7), 1054-1062. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12642

While the basic nature of irony is saying one thing and communicating the opposite, it may also serve additional social and emotional functions, such as projecting humour or anger. Emoticons often accompany irony in computer-mediated communication, a... Read More about Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG.

How gender-expectancy affects the processing of “them” (2016)
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Doherty, A., & Conklin, K. (2016). How gender-expectancy affects the processing of “them”. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(4), 718-735. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1154582

How sensitive is pronoun processing to expectancies based on real-world knowledge and language usage? The current study links research on the integration of gender stereotypes and number-mismatch to explore this question. It focuses on the use of the... Read More about How gender-expectancy affects the processing of “them”.

Using eye-tracking in applied linguistics and second language research (2016)
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Conklin, K., & Pellicer-Sánchez, A. (2016). Using eye-tracking in applied linguistics and second language research. Second Language Research, 32(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583166+37401

With eye-tracking technology the eye is thought to give researchers a window into the mind. Importantly, eye-tracking has significant advantages over traditional online processing measures: chiefly that it allows for more ‘natural’ processing as it d... Read More about Using eye-tracking in applied linguistics and second language research.

Double style (2016)
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Sutherland, L. (2016). Double style

Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention (2016)
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Thompson, D., & Filik, R. (2016). Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 21(2), 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12156

Here we present two studies that investigate the use of emoticons in clarifying message intent. We look at sarcasm in particular, which can be especially hard to interpret correctly in written communication. In both studies, participants were require... Read More about Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention.

“If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group (2016)
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Jones, L. (2016). “If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group. Language in Society, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404515000792

This article presents ethnographic data emerging from research with a group of LGBT young people, detailing the construction of a shared identity. Using discourse analysis, it shows how the group members position people of South Asian descent as a ho... Read More about “If a Muslim says ‘homo’, nothing gets done”: racist discourse and in-group identity construction in an LGBT youth group.

Found in translation: The Influence of the L1 on the Reading of Idioms in a L2 (2016)
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Carrol, G., Conklin, K., & Gyllstad, H. (2016). Found in translation: The Influence of the L1 on the Reading of Idioms in a L2. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 38(3), 403-443. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263115000492

© 2016 Cambridge University Press. Formulaic language represents a challenge to even the most proficient of language learners. Evidence is mixed as to whether native and nonnative speakers process it in a fundamentally different way, whether exposure... Read More about Found in translation: The Influence of the L1 on the Reading of Idioms in a L2.

Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective (2016)
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Atkins, S., Roberts, C., Hawthorne, K., & Greenhalgh, T. (2016). Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective. BMC Medical Education, 16(16), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0535-2

Background Assessment of consulting skills using simulated patients is widespread in medical education. Most research into such assessment is sited in a statistical paradigm that focuses on psychometric properties or replicability of such tests. Equ... Read More about Simulated consultations: a sociolinguistic perspective.

Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city (2016)
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Jordan, S. (2016). Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city. First Monday, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i1.5529

As cities become more complex and their communities more dispersed, questions such as ‘where is home? and ‘where and how do I belong?’ are increasingly pertinent. If urban space is a system, then it can be challenged through the spatial practice of i... Read More about Hacking the streets: ‘smart’ writing in the smart city.

Further letters of D.H. Lawrence (2016)
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Worthen, J., & Harrison, A. (2016). Further letters of D.H. Lawrence

[Letters of D.H. Lawrence, edited and translated by John Worthen and Andrew Harrison.]

Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading (2015)
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Pellicer-Sánchez, A. (in press). Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading. Language Teaching Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168815618428

Previous studies have shown that intentional learning through explicit instruction is effective for the acquisition of collocations in a second language (L2) (e.g. Peters, 2014, 2015), but relatively little is known about the effectiveness of inciden... Read More about Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading.

The impact of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) on reading by nonnative speakers (2015)
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Boo, Z., & Conklin, K. (2015). The impact of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) on reading by nonnative speakers

With the proliferation of cell phones and other small handheld electronic devices, more and more people are using software that presents texts one word at a time. This trend can be attributed to the small screen sizes afforded by these modern electro... Read More about The impact of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) on reading by nonnative speakers.