Stephen Skalicky
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen Skalicky plays a role.
Articles
2023 Leaving this unsaid: A case study of empty this in North American satirical newspaper headlines Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 213–231 | Chapter
We investigated the use of this in a large corpus of headlines gathered from three North American satirical newspapers (The Onion, The Beaverton, and The Babylon Bee). There were 551 instances of this in the corpus, 26 of which were used pronominally but without a clear referent, which we dub… read more
2019 Predictors of second language English lexical recognition: Further insights from a large database of second language lexical decision times The Mental Lexicon 14:3, pp. 333–356 | Article
In this study we analyze a large database of lexical decision times for English content words made by speakers of English as an additional language residing in the United States. Our first goal was to test whether the use of statistical measures better able to model variation associated with… read more
