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Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain (2017)
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Language comprehension is sensitive to the predictability of the upcoming information. Prediction allows for smooth, expedient and successful communication. While general discourse-based constraints have been investigated in detail, more specific phr... Read More about Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain.

Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage (2017)
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In this paper, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from CDA and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency... Read More about Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage.

Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names (2017)
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Old English sǣte names survive in documentary sources and place-names, and have been used in historical discourse as evidence for early and middle Anglo-Saxon socio-political organization. Earlier analyses, founded on incomplete datasets, have attemp... Read More about Old English sǣte and the historical significance of 'folk'-names.

What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation (2017)
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In speech addressed to adults, words are seldom realized in their canonical, or citation, form. For example, the word ‘green’ in the phrase ‘green beans’ can often be realized as ‘greem’ due to English place assimilation, where word-final coronals ta... Read More about What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation.

Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges (2017)
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This article addresses the general ethical issues of accessing online personal data for research purposes. The authors discuss the practical aspects of online research with a specific case study that illustrates the ethical challenges encountered whe... Read More about Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges.

Reading collocations in an L2: do collocation processing benefits extend to non-adjacent collocations? (2017)
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Various studies have consistently shown that collocations are processed faster than matched control phrases, both in L1 and in L2. Most of these studies focused on adjacent collocations (e.g., provide information). However, research in corpus linguis... Read More about Reading collocations in an L2: do collocation processing benefits extend to non-adjacent collocations?.

Medieval Scottish poetry (2017)
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Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships (2017)
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This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices in Britain, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there ar... Read More about Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships.

Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents (2017)
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Although studies investigating language abilities in young children exposed to more than one language have become common, there is still surprisingly little research examining language development in children exposed to more than one accent. Here, we... Read More about Input matters: speed of word recognition in 2-year-olds exposed to multiple accents.

“Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press (2017)
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A recent (2016) Office for National Statistics report stated that dementia is now “the leading cause of death” in England and Wales. Ever fixated with the syndrome (an unfailingly newsworthy topic), the British press was quick to respond to the bulle... Read More about “Our biggest killer”: multimodal discourse representations of dementia in the British press.

Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis (2017)
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The increase of infections resistant to existing antimicrobial medicines has become a topic of concern for health professionals, policy makers and publics across the globe, however among the public there is a sense that this is an issue beyond their... Read More about Who or what has agency in the discussion of antimicrobial resistance in UK news media (2010-2015)?: a transitivity analysis.

Sorry, above all, that I can make nothing right’: public apology in Judith Wright (2017)
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Mapping the Robin Hood rifles in mid-nineteenth-century Nottingham (2017)
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Ships and Brunanburh (2017)
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Work on ships in the Old English poem The Battle of Brunanburh has principally focused on the word cnear as a lexical item or as having some particular form or appearance. This article draws on this work with a view to elucidating what the poem tells... Read More about Ships and Brunanburh.

Pushed to the limit (2017)
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“My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games (2017)
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The imagery of bread in The Hunger Games provides an opportunity to read the novel within a Christian tradition alert to themes of suffering, sacrifice and solidarity. This article examines how the novel “re-enchants” bread as both a site of ideolog... Read More about “My Eucharist to the people of District 11”:bread, sacrifice and thanksgiving in The Hunger Games.

'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city (2017)
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© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press 2017; all rights reserved. This article explores the ways in which mid-Tudor writing addressed and imagined the city of London. Scholarly reactions to mid-Tudor writing have been mixed: where ni... Read More about 'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city.

A Portrait of Hugo Claus as a Young Artist: The Influence of James Joyce on The Sorrow of Belgium (2017)
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Naturalistic reading in the L2 and the impact of word frequency and cross-linguistic similarity (2017)
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While psycholinguistic studies of first language (L1) reading have identified multiple factors that predict the speed of lexical access, there are few studies investigating whether such factors influence second language (L2) reading. For usage-based... Read More about Naturalistic reading in the L2 and the impact of word frequency and cross-linguistic similarity.

John McEnroe's omelet (2017)
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