Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Page 1 OXFORD APPLIED LINGUISTICS The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition
Zoltán Dörnyei OXFORD ih The Ben Warren International House Trust Prize Winner 2009 Page …

There is mounting evidence that language users are sensitive to distributional information at
many grain-sizes. Much of this research has focused on the distributional properties of …

Frequent words tend to shorten. But do homophone pairs, such as time and thyme, shorten
equally if one member of the pair is frequent? This study reports an analysis of roughly …

Recent research has shown that homophonous lexemes show systematic phonetic
differences (eg Gahl 2008, Drager 2011), with important consequences for models of …

We present a cross-constructional approach to the history of the genitive alternation and the
dative alternation in Late Modern English (AD 1650 to AD 1999), drawing on richly …

Understanding how humans acquire or learn a language has been controversial in various
disciplines. Most vigorously, psychologists and linguists have been struggling with models …

The past two decades have seen the development of several constraint-based models of
phonological grammar that can handle variable phenomena. Most of these models …

We sketch a project that marries probabilistic grammar research to scholarship on World
Englishes, thus synthesizing two previously rather disjoint lines of research into one unifying …

A classic debate in the psychology of language concerns the question of the grain-size of
the linguistic information that is stored in memory. One view is that only morphologically …