University of Maryland, College Park

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Maryland, College Park*

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor

Elisa Gironzetti

Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics

[Figurative Thought and Language, 13] 2022. | monograph

Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning

Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Benjamins Current Topics, 116] 2021. | edited volume

Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability

Edited by Robert DeKeyser, & Goretti Prieto Botana & (Eds.)

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 52] 2019. | course book

The Evolving Curriculum in Interpreter and Translator Education: Stakeholder perspectives and voices

Edited by David B. Sawyer, Frank Austermühl & Vanessa Enríquez Raído

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language teaching | Translation Studies

[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, XIX] 2019. | edited volume

EditorNan Jiang

[Journal of Second Language Studies, 1:1] 2018. iii, 230 pp. | journal issue

Applicatives: Structure and interpretation from a minimalist perspective

AuthorYoungmi Jeong

Subjects Generative linguistics | Semantics | Syntax

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 104] 2007. vii, 144 pp. | monograph

Yotsukura, Lindsay Amthor 2027 Problem resolution through informal re-framing: Modulating style and stance in Kansai

Keywords: style shift | honorifics | indexicality | frame | footing | stance | Kansai dialect | affect keys

In: Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context, Cook, Haruko Minegishi & Momoko Nakamura (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 357] pp. 145–171

Shin, So Yeon 2026 Family-level social factors and language development in Korean-learning children

Keywords: family factors | Korean acquisition | language development | family socioeconomic status (SES) | parenting

In: Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art, Choi, Soonja (ed.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 36] pp. 262–289

Andebo, Pascal Pax 2025 Review of Globalisation and the mother tongue in Uganda: An examination of public perceptions to native languages in education today by Venansio Ahabwe (2020)

Language Problems and Language Planning 49:1 pp. 122–127 | book review

Lasnik, Howard 2025 Exceptional case-marking reconsidered

In: Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache & Hagit Borer (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 288] pp. 56–75

Poole, Frederick J. & Mireia Toda Cosi 2025 Generative AI in instructed SLA: Bridging AI literacies with L2 pedagogy

Keywords: generative artificial intelligence | digital literacies | AI literacies | instructed second language acquisition

In: Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy, Loewen, Shawn, Frederick J. Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang & Matthew D. Coss (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 63] pp. 163–184

Rylander, John & Steven J. Ross 2025 Learner gains from pragmatics instruction across contexts: A mixed-effects analysis

Keywords: interlanguage pragmatics | mixed-effects models | assessing pragmatic awareness

Applied Pragmatics 7:2 pp. 192–224 | article

O’Connell, Stephen P. & Steven J. Ross 2025 Ontological realism as a validity criterion in second-language strategic competence assessment

Keywords: strategic competence | strategic competence assessment | ontological realism | validity criterion | interpretive argument | oral proficiency interview

Applied Pragmatics 7:1 pp. 56–81 | article

Polinsky, Maria 2025 Multiple grammars within linguistic populations: Distributions and theoretical implications

Keywords: Multiple grammars | bilingualism | structural ambiguity | scope interactions | underdetermined input

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:2 pp. 101–128 | article

Plonsky, Luke & Ekaterina Sudina 2025 Self-citation practices in applied linguistics: A bibliometric review

Keywords: self-citation | research ethics | questionable research practices | bibliometrics

Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 pp. 264–280 | article

Seguin, Luisa 2025 The syntax and pragmatics of clause-internal wh-phrases in Valdôtain Patois

Keywords: Valdôtain Patois | clause internal wh-phrases | A′-movement | Low Left Periphery | activation | pragmatics of wh-questions

Linguistic Variation 26:1 pp. 203–220 | article

Pleshak, Polina & Maria Polinsky 2025 What can only returnees teach us about language?

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1 pp. 51–56 | article commentary

Biber, Douglas, Tove Larsson, Gregory R. Hancock, Randi Reppen, Shelley Staples & Bethany Gray 2024 Comparing theory-based models of grammatical complexity in student writing

Keywords: grammatical complexity | dependent clauses | dependent phrases | syntactic functions | written register variation | university student writing

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 11:1 pp. 145–177 | article

Derks, John 2025 Language and the demand for self-determination

Keywords: assimilation | language policy | cultural restrictions | self-determination | secession | autonomy | language conflict

Language Problems and Language Planning 48:3 pp. 262–291 | article

Fuchs, Zuzanna, Maria Polinsky & Gregory Scontras 2024 Explaining gender: Lessons from heritage Spanish

In: Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 66] pp. 292–326

Parry-Giles, Shawn J. & David S. Kaufer 2023 Strategic language as a family
of identity-based discourse registers: Hillary Clinton and the president’s task force
on national health reform, 1993–1994

Keywords: Clinton administration | Hillary Clinton | strategy | health care | discourse register | role identity | interest groups | automatic text analysis | digital humanities

In: Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope, Brown, David West & Danielle Zawodny Wetzel (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 109] pp. 239–263

Gnanadesikan, Amalia E. 2024 Segments and syllables in Hangeul and Thaana: A comparison and optimality theoretic analysis

Keywords: Hangeul | Thaana | script invention | script design | graphic syllable | onset | coda | Optimality Theory | constraint ranking

Written Language & Literacy 26:2 pp. 238–265 | article

Moyer, Alene 2022 Review of Pragmatics of Accents edited by Gaëlle Planchenault & Livia Poljak (2021)

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:2 pp. 309–314 | book review

DeKeyser, Robert M. 2022 Age effects in naturalistic and instructed second language acquisition: Two sides of one coin

In: Second Language Acquisition Theory: The legacy of professor Michael H. Long, Benati, Alessandro G. & John W. Schwieter (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 14] pp. 197–210

Mendes, Gesoel & Marta Ruda 2022 Pseudo-coordination and ellipsis: Expressive insights from Brazilian Portuguese and Polish

Keywords: pseudo-coordination | ellipsis | expressive language | verb-echo answers

In: Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions, Giusti, Giuliana, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro & Daniel Ross (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 274] pp. 169–190

Larsson, Tove, Luke Plonsky & Gregory R. Hancock 2023 On learner characteristics and why we should model them as latent variables

Keywords: learner characteristics | metadata | latent variables | observed variables | structural equation modeling | latent variable path analysis

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:2 pp. 237–260 | article

Sawyer, David B. 2021 Review of Dolmetscherinnen und Dolmetscher im Netz der Macht: Autobiographisch konstruierte Lebenswege in autoritären Regimen edited by Dörte Andres, Klaus Kaindl & Ingrid Kurz (2017)

Interpreting 23:2 pp. 321–328 | book review

Sawyer, David B. 2021 

Interpreting 24:1 pp. 155–162 | book review

Santibáñez, Cristian, Dale Hample & Jessica M. Hample 2021 How do Chilean seniors think about arguing?: Their motivations, understandings, and emotional registration of interpersonal arguing

Keywords: Chile | interpersonal arguing | argumentativeness | verbal aggressiveness | argument frames | taking conflict personally | power distance | elderly

Journal of Argumentation in Context 10:2 pp. 202–225 | article

Jiang, Nan 2021 Introduction

Journal of Second Language Studies 4:2 pp. 201–203 | introduction

DeKeyser, Robert M. 2021 Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning

In: Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning, DeKeyser, Robert M. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 116] p.  ff.

DeKeyser, Robert M. 2021 Aptitude-treatment interaction in second language learning

In: Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning, DeKeyser, Robert M. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 116] pp. 1–4

Kachinske, Ilina & Robert DeKeyser 2021 The interaction between timing of explicit grammar explanation and individual differences in second language acquisition

Keywords: language aptitude | working memory | aptitude-treatment interaction | explicit instruction | individual differences | declarative knowledge | procedural knowledge | skill acquisition theory

In: Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning, DeKeyser, Robert M. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 116] pp. 33–68

Brown Nielson, Katharine & Robert DeKeyser 2021 Working memory and planning time as predictors of fluency and accuracy

Keywords: tasks | ESL | planning | working memory capacity | aptitude

In: Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning, DeKeyser, Robert M. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 116] pp. 117–151

Jiang, Nan 2021 Examining L1 influence in L2 word recognition: A case for case

Keywords: L1 influence | case effect | word recognition | lexical decision | Arabic | Chinese | ESL

Journal of Second Language Studies 4:1 pp. 1–18 | article

Johns, Michael A. & Paola E. Dussias 2021 Of revistas and magacínes : Lexical competition in the online processing of established loanwords

Keywords: bilingualism | borrowing | loanwords | online processing | pupillometry

Journal of Second Language Studies 4:2 pp. 375–411 | article

Jiang, Nan 2021 Orthographic friends and lexical strangers in the L2 lexicon

Keywords: L2 word recognition | orthographic priming | prime lexicality effect | lexical competition | masked priming

Journal of Second Language Studies 4:2 pp. 224–244 | article

Labrie, Nanon, Aranka Akkermans & Dale Hample 2020 A Dutch dose of dissent: Exploring the role of gender, education, and culture on Dutch students’ argumentative predispositions

Keywords: argumentativeness | argumentative predispositions | argument frames | education | gender | Netherlands | students | taking conflict personally | United States | verbal aggressiveness

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:2 pp. 219–242 | article

Yotsukura, Lindsay 2020 Getting to the point: Indexical reference in English and Japanese email discourse

Keywords: indexicality | deixis | business | email | benefactives | honorifics | politeness | English | Japanese

In: Bonding through context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse, Ide, Risako & Kaori Hata (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] pp. 217–238

Conners, Thomas J. 2020 Javanese undressed: ‘Peripheral’ dialects in typological perspective

Keywords: Javanese | internal dialect variation | typology | peripheral dialects | isolating morphology

In: Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating, Gil, David & Antoinette Schapper (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 129] pp. 253–286

Seguin, Luisa 2020 Transparency and language contact: The case of Haitian Creole, French, and Fongbe

Keywords: Haitian Creole | Fongbe | French | transparency | language contact | Functional Discourse Grammar

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 35:2 pp. 218–252 | article

Linck, Jared A., Martyn Clark, Carrie Bonilla, Ewa Golonka, Catherine J. Doughty, TaraLee Mecham & William Burns 2020 Autonomous Portuguese L3 learning through an adaptive platform

Keywords: autonomous learning | adaptive learning | language learning technology | cognitive science | human language technology | L3 acquisition | educational data mining

In: Linguistic approaches to portuguese as an additional language, Molsing, Karina Veronica, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna & Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] pp. 231–258

Seguin, Luisa 2023 Language contact in the Balkan Sprachbund: A study of transparency in Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Italian, and Greek

Keywords: transparency | language contact | Balkan Sprachbund | Romanian | Bulgarian | Greek | diglossia

Language Ecology 4:2 pp. 151–174 | article

Bonilla, Carrie, Ewa Golonka, Nick B. Pandža, Jared Linck, Erica B. Michael, Martyn Clark, Alia Lancaster & Dorna Richardson 2020 Leveraging Spanish knowledge and cognitive aptitude in Portuguese learning

Keywords: cross-training | third language acquisition | multilingualism | bilingual glosses | inhibitory control | cognates | cross-linguistic influence | aptitude | reading comprehension | vocabulary learning

In: Linguistic approaches to portuguese as an additional language, Molsing, Karina Veronica, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna & Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 24] pp. 191–230

DeKeyser, Robert M. 2019 Aptitude-treatment interaction in second language learning: Introduction to the special issue

Journal of Second Language Studies 2:2 pp. 165–168 | introduction

Kachinske, Ilina & Robert DeKeyser 2019 The interaction between timing of explicit grammar explanation and individual differences in second language acquisition

Keywords: language aptitude | working memory | ATI | explicit instruction | individual differences | declarative knowledge | procedural knowledge | skill acquisition theory

Journal of Second Language Studies 2:2 pp. 197–232 | article

Brown Nielson, Katharine & Robert DeKeyser 2019 Working memory and planning time as predictors of fluency and accuracy

Keywords: tasks | ESL | planning | working memory capacity | aptitude

Journal of Second Language Studies 2:2 pp. 281–316 | article

Meir, Natalia & Maria Polinsky 2019 Restructuring in heritage grammars: Adjective-noun and numeral-noun expressions in Israeli Russian

Keywords: heritage language | Russian | Hebrew | representational economy | adjective-noun expressions | numeral-noun expressions

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:2 pp. 222–258 | article

DeKeyser, Robert & Goretti Prieto Botana 2019 Current research on instructed second language learning: A bird’s eye view

Keywords: instructed second language acquisition | research methodology | classroom research | laboratory research

In: Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability, DeKeyser, Robert & Goretti Prieto Botana (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 52] pp. 1–8

Botana, Goretti Prieto & Robert DeKeyser 2019 The effects of multiple exposures to explicit information: Evidence from two types of learning problems and practice conditions

Keywords: Explicit Information | inductive instruction | deductive instruction | Spanish ser/estar | Spanish OVS

In: Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability, DeKeyser, Robert & Goretti Prieto Botana (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 52] pp. 127–154

Lin, Candise Yue & Min Wang 2018 The use of lexical and sublexical cues in speech segmentation by second language learners of English

Keywords: speech segmentation | lexical knowledge | semantic relatedness | Mandarin | second language acquisition

Journal of Second Language Studies 1:1 pp. 166–198 | article

Gor, Kira, Anna Chrabaszcz & Svetlana Cook 2018 Early and late learners decompose inflected nouns, but can they tell which ones are inflected correctly?

Keywords: heritage speakers | second language learners | morphology | lexical access | inflection | decomposition | second language processing | nonnative proficiency | lexical decision task | auditory word recognition

Journal of Second Language Studies 1:1 pp. 106–140 | article

Lidz, Jeffrey & Laurel Perkins 2018 The importance of input representations

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6 pp. 743–748 | article commentary

Ranero, Rodrigo 2018 Eguren Luis, Olga Fernández-Soriano & Amaya Mendikoetxea (eds.). Rethinking Parameters.

Linguistic Variation 18:1 pp. 197–204 | book review

Li, Chuchu, Yakov Kronrod & Min Wang 2018 The influence of the native language on phonological preparation in spoken word production in a second language

Keywords: phonological preparation | language production | bilinguals

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:1 pp. 109–151 | article

Freynik, Suzanne, Kira Gor & Polly O’Rourke 2017 L2 processing of Arabic derivational morphology

The Mental Lexicon 12:1 pp. 21–50 | article

Vincze, Laszlo, Nick Joyce & Kimmo Vehkalahti 2018 Military L2 immersion: Language learning motivations among Finnish-speaking conscripts in a Swedish language garrison

Keywords: L2 acquisition | Swedish in Finland | military service | integrative motivation | instrumental motivation

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 8:2 pp. 273–287 | article

Gor, Kira, Anna Chrabaszcz & Svetlana Cook 2017 A case for agreement: Processing of case inflection by early and late learners

Keywords: Russian inflectional morphology | second language | heritage speakers

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 p. 6 | article

MacSwan, Jeff 2017 Codeswitching and the timing of Lexical Insertion

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:6 pp. 786–791 | article commentary

Moyer, Alene 2016 The puzzle of gender effects in L2 phonology

Keywords: phonology | sex differences | individual differences | second language learning | language processing | pronunciation | accent

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2:1 p. 8 | article

Laleko, Oksana & Maria Polinsky 2016 Between syntax and discourse: Topic and case marking in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Japanese and Korean

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:4 pp. 396–439 | Article

Kachinske, Ilina, Peter Osthus, Katya Solovyeva & Mike Long 2015 Implicit learning of a L2 morphosyntactic rule, and its relevance for language teaching

Keywords: cognitive-interactionist approach | Implicit learning | morphosyntax

In: Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages, Rebuschat, Patrick (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 48] pp. 385–416

Hample, Dale & Adam S. Richards 2015 Attachment style, serial argument, and taking conflict personally

Keywords: attachment style | personal relationshio | serial argument

Journal of Argumentation in Context 4:1 pp. 63–86 | article

Zhou, Minglang 2013 Review of Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution? by Shouhui Zhao & Richard B. Jr. Baldauf (2008)

Chinese Language and Discourse 4:1 pp. 145–148 | book review

Ramsey, S. Robert 2013 Samuel E. Martin: 24 January 1924–28 November 2009

Korean Linguistics 15:1 pp. 1–5 | article

Jourdain, Sarah & Mary Ellen Scullen 2008 A pedagogical norm for circumlocution in French

In: Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Studies in honour of Albert Valdman, Gass, Susan M., Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce & Joel Walz (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 5] pp. 221–239

Bernstein Ratner, Nan & Becky Rooney 2008 How Accessible is the Lexicon in Motherese?

Keywords: child-directed speech | input | lexicon | motherese | parsing strategies | redundancy | segmentation | very short utterances (VSU’s)

In: Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 1, Weissenborn, Jürgen & Barbara Höhle (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23] pp. 71–78

Morreau, Michael 1999 Review of Semantic Ambiguity and Under specification edited by Kees van Deemter & Stanley Peters (1996)

Pragmatics & Cognition 7:1 pp. 219–223 | book review

Turner, Mark 1995 Review of The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding by Raymond W. Gibbs (1994)

Pragmatics & Cognition 3:1 pp. 181–187 | book review

Fagan, Sarah M.B. 1994 Review of On Germanic linguistics edited by Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr & Robert L. Kyes (1992)

Studies in Language 18:2 pp. 510–521 | book review

Ottósson, Kjartan G. 1989 Review of Tiefenkasus, thematische Relationen und Thetarollen by Gisa Rauh (1988)

Studies in Language 13:2 pp. 495–505 | book review

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.