This article revisits earlier proposals that language learning is, in essence, the learning of
formulaic sequences and their interpretations; that this occurs at all levels of granularity from …

The role of formulaic language has generally received only marginal attention within
linguistic and second language acquisition theory While there has been continuing interest …

This article shows how language processing is intimately tuned to input frequency.
Examples are given of frequency effects in the processing of phonology, phonotactics …

This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, examining patterns
across research from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language …

Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective brings
together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary account of the …

In recent years, psycholinguistic studies have built support for the notion that formulaic
language is more widespread and pervasive in adult sentence processing than previously …

This response addresses the following points raised in the commentaries:(a) complementary
learning mechanisms, the distinction between explicit and implicit memory, and the …

This article presents a generative analysis of the acquisition of formulaic language as an
alternative to current usage-based proposals. One influential view of the role of formulaic …

Formulaic language units, ready-made chunks and sequences of words, have been the
subject of a large and growing body of research. Although formulaic language has been …

This article reviews the concrete effects that the theoretical findings on the formulaic nature
of language have had in instructed second language acquisition (SLA). The introductory …