This meta-analysis synthesized 35 English studies (130 effect sizes, N= 1,981) that
employed online tasks to investigate the processing of multiword sequences (MWSs). We …

The present study examined the effect of both morphological complexity and semantic
transparency in Chinese compound word recognition. Using a visual lexical decision task …

Multi-word expressions (MWEs) serve as vital indicators of language development and have
been a primary focus in second language acquisition research. The use of MWEs in spoken …

Collocations typically refer to habitual word combinations, which not only occur in texts but
also constitute an essential component of the mental lexicon. This study focuses on the …

Phraseological units in academic English texts have been a central focus in recent corpus
linguistic research. This paper describes a special category of clause-level phraseological …

Recent studies have accumulated to suggest that children, akin to adults, exhibit a
processing advantage for formulaic language (eg save energy) over novel language (eg sell …

This brief report presents the results of a re-analysis of data by Yi, Man, and Maie (2023),
who investigated L1 and L2 intuitive knowledge of phrasal frequency and collocation …

The current piece is a commentary on two studies published in Vocabulary Learning and
Instruction (Volume 13, Number 1, 2024) which focus on multi-word expressions (MWEs) …