Human language processing relies on many kinds of linguistic knowledge, and is sensitive
to their frequency, including lexical frequencies Ciyier, 1984; Salasoo & Pisoni, 1985; …

In Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Xiaofei Lu comprehensively
reviews empirical studies that employ corpus linguistic methods to investigate issues in …

ABSTRACT A growing body of research suggests that language users integrate diverse
sources of information in processing and adapt to the variability of language at multiple …

Recent work in L2 processing offers several explanations for why it might continue to
diverge from native speaker processing, even in advanced learners. Previous proposals …

The processing of long-distance dependencies has been one of the primary means of
investigating the linguistic components involved in working memory mechanisms behind the …

In this dissertation, I examined children's ability to generate two types of pragmatic
inferences during online language comprehension. Using referential communication tasks …

Research on lexical processing shows that lexical representations of L2 speakers are less
developed, so frequency and vocabulary size affect the way they use lexical information …