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Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing
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Murakami, Akira; Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2022
We investigated whether the accuracy of grammatical morphemes in second language (L2) learners' writing is associated with usage-based distributional factors. Specifically, we examined whether the accuracy of L2 English inflectional morphemes is associated with the availability (i.e., token frequency) and contingency (i.e., token frequency…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cognition, Corpora, and Computing: Triangulating Research in Usage-Based Language Learning
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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2017
Usage-based approaches explore how we learn language from our experience of language. Related research thus involves the analysis of the usage from which learners learn and of learner usage as it develops. This program involves considerable data recording, transcription, and analysis, using a variety of corpus and computational techniques, many of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Longitudinal Studies
Constructing a Second Language: Analyses and Computational Simulations of the Emergence of Linguistic Constructions from Usage
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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2009
This article presents an analysis of interactions in the usage, structure, cognition, coadaptation of conversational partners, and emergence of linguistic constructions. It focuses on second language development of English verb-argument constructions (VACs: VL, verb locative; VOL, verb object locative; VOO, ditransitive) with particular reference…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Statistical Distributions
The Dynamics of Second Language Emergence: Cycles of Language Use, Language Change, and Language Acquisition
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Ellis, Nick C. – Modern Language Journal, 2008
This article outlines an emergentist account whereby the limited end-state typical of adult second language learners results from dynamic cycles of language use, language change, language perception, and language learning in the interactions of members of language communities. In summary, the major processes are: 1. "Usage leads to change": High…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Cues, Language Variation, Grammar
Reflections on Frequency Effects in Language Processing.
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Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
An author reacts to a series of responses written in regard to an earlier article by the author on frequency in language processing, language use, and language acquisition. Addresses a number of issues raised in the responses and concludes by emphasizing that language acquisition is a process of dynamic emergence and learners' language is a…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Input
Cognitive Perspectives on SLA: The Associative-Cognitive CREED
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Ellis, Nick C. – AILA Review, 2006
This paper outlines current cognitive perspectives on second language acquisition (SLA). The Associative-Cognitive CREED holds that SLA is governed by the same principles of associative and cognitive learning that underpin the rest of human knowledge. The major principles of the framework are that SLA is Construction-based, Rational,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Native Language