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Using distributional statistics to acquire morphophonological alternations: evidence from production and perception (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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 true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses (2016)
Book Chapter
Davison, S. (2016). “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses. In R. Crowley, & D. van Hulle (Eds.), New quotatoes: Joycean exogenesis in the digital age (111-140). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004319622_009

This essay uses evidence from the notes that Joyce made in preparation to recapitulate the historical development of English prose style in the “Oxen of the Sun” chapter of Ulysses to identify the traces of Defoe’s works that appear in the text of th... Read More about “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses.

The portormin (dunbeath) runestone (2016)
Journal Article
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.

St Andrews and Aberdeen (2016)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2016). St Andrews and Aberdeen. In D. Wallce (Ed.), Europe: a literary history 1348-1418. Oxford University Press

The Life of D. H. Lawrence (2016)
Book
Harrison, A. (2016). The Life of D. H. Lawrence. Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781119072669

Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: evidence from EDA and facial EMG (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century (2016)
Book Chapter
Ní Fhlathúin, . M. (2016). Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century. A History of Indian Poetry in English (98-113). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139940887.007

When David Lester Richardson compiled the “British-Indian Poetry” section of his Selections from the British Poets (the first attempt to anthologize the poetry of British India) in 1840, he included no comic poetry. Despite the fact that humorous ver... Read More about Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century.

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

Maxims in Aldred's marginalia to the Lindisfarne Gospels (2016)
Book Chapter
Cavill, P. (2016). Maxims in Aldred's marginalia to the Lindisfarne Gospels. In J. Fernandez Cuesta, & S. Pons-Sanz (Eds.), The Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels: language, author and context. De Gruyter

Sarcasm in written communication: emoticons are efficient markers of intention (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Gavin Douglas's Eneados (2016)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2016). Gavin Douglas's Eneados. In R. Copeland (Ed.), Oxford history of classical reception in English literature. Oxford University Press