Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely
new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not …

The present study aimed at investigating the effects of learning lexical chunks on the
speaking fluency of EFL Iranian learners (between the ages of 13 and 17) and at the same …

Corpora reveal authentic language use in different contexts and are, therefore,
indispensable for L2 vocabulary teaching. Considering the real needs of language teachers …

Chunking in language comprehension is a process that segments continuous linguistic input
into smaller chunks that are in the reader's mental lexicon. Effective chunking during reading …

The present study investigates the use of lexical bundles in Korean EFL teacher talk. In
particular, it examines the quantitative and qualitative features of lexical bundles in a native …

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a suitable non-invasive measure for investigating the
temporal dynamics of mental processing because of its high temporal resolution and cost …

Estimating sentence-like units and sentence boundaries in human language is an important
task in the context of natural language understanding. While this topic has been considered …

First and foremost, I wish to express gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Dr. Brigitte Halford. I am
indebted to her for showing me respect and support as both her student and assistant over …

This paper presents an architecture for human language processing, explaining both
facilitating and complexification effects. It relies on the hypothesis that the default strategy is …

The term formulaic sequences encompasses a various types of word strings which appear to
be stored and retrieved as holistic units from the memory. Formulaic sequences constitute a …