Our research investigates the psycholinguistic reality in language users of the phenomena of collocation and semantic prosody shown by corpus linguistics to be pervasive in language texts. This report concerns the earliest stages of word recognition and lexical access. It uses a lexical decision task to assess whether these processes are sensitive to particular collocations and to the generalizations of semantic prosody/association. The results demonstrate that native speakers preferentially process frequent verb-argument and booster/maximizer-adjective collocations. But the same paradigm that so readily shows sensitivity to particular collocations fails to demonstrate generalization. While memory for particular lexical associations affords fluent lexical access, there are no top-down semantic generalizations upon this level of processing. Our subsequent research shows semantic access to be the earliest cognitive locus of semantic association.
Fioravanti, Irene, Anna Siyanova‐Chanturia & Alessandro Lenci
2024. Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian. Language Learning
Hauser, David J. & James Hillman
2024. What Does It Mean to Be “Utterly Content”? Semantic Prosody Impacts Nuanced Inferences Beyond Just Valence. Social Cognition 42:1 ► pp. 61 ff.
Esfandiari, Rajab & Mohammad Ahmadi
2023. Phraseological Complexity and Academic Writing Proficiency in Abstracts Authored by Student and Expert Writers. English Teaching & Learning 47:4 ► pp. 429 ff.
Li, Hui, Xiaolu Wang, Kevin B. Paterson, Hua Zhang & Degao Li
2023. Is there a processing advantage for verb-noun collocations in Chinese reading? Evidence from eye movements during reading. Frontiers in Psychology 14
Li, Jia & Quanbei Zhao
2023. 2023 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), ► pp. 162 ff.
Shi, Jinfang, Gang Peng & Dechao Li
2023. Figurativeness Matters in the Second Language Processing of Collocations: Evidence From a Self‐Paced Reading Experiment. Language Learning 73:1 ► pp. 47 ff.
Garner, Jamie
2022. The cross-sectional development of verb–noun collocations as constructions in L2 writing. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 60:3 ► pp. 909 ff.
Li, Hui, Kevin B. Paterson, Kayleigh L. Warrington & Xiaolu Wang
2022. Insights Into the Processing of Collocations During L2 English Reading: Evidence From Eye Movements. Frontiers in Psychology 13
Dushku, Silvana & Youngshil Paek
2021. Investigating ESL learners’ awareness of semantic prosody across proficiency levels. Language Awareness 30:3 ► pp. 234 ff.
Kamasak, Rifat & Tugce Ezgi Soyaltin
2021. Promoting the Effectiveness of Language Teaching Through Online Academic Word Lists and Extensive Reading in the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Digital Pedagogies and the Transformation of Language Education [Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design, ], ► pp. 165 ff.
Li, Hui, Kayleigh L. Warrington, Ascensión Pagán, Kevin B. Paterson & Xialou Wang
2021. Independent effects of collocation strength and contextual predictability on eye movements in reading. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 36:8 ► pp. 1001 ff.
VON STUTTERHEIM, CHRISTIANE, MONIQUE LAMBERT & JOHANNES GERWIEN
2021. Limitations on the role of frequency in L2 acquisition. Language and Cognition 13:2 ► pp. 291 ff.
Schmitt, Norbert & Diane Schmitt
2020. Vocabulary in Language Teaching,
Snefjella, Bryor, Nadia Lana & Victor Kuperman
2020. How emotion is learned: Semantic learning of novel words in emotional contexts. Journal of Memory and Language 115 ► pp. 104171 ff.
Almela-Sánchez, Moisés & Pascual Cantos-Gómez
2019. The Grammatical Environment of Intensifier-Noun Collocations: Insights from Lexical Priming Theory. In Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11755], ► pp. 1 ff.
Lorenz, David & David Tizón-Couto
2019. Chunking or predicting – frequency information and reduction in the perception of multi-word sequences. Cognitive Linguistics 30:4 ► pp. 751 ff.
Vetchinnikova, Svetlana
2019. Phraseology and the Advanced Language Learner,
Vilkaitė, Laura & Norbert Schmitt
2019. Reading Collocations in an L2: Do Collocation Processing Benefits Extend to Non-Adjacent Collocations?. Applied Linguistics 40:2 ► pp. 329 ff.
2016. Collocational Processing in Light of the Phraseological Continuum Model: Does Semantic Transparency Matter?. Language Learning 66:2 ► pp. 296 ff.
Brook O'Donnell, Matthew, Ute Römer & Nick C. Ellis
2014. ‘Goblins, owles and sprites’: Discerning early-modern English preternatural beings through collocational analysis. Religion 44:4 ► pp. 547 ff.
Sonbul, Suhad & Norbert Schmitt
2013. Explicit and Implicit Lexical Knowledge: Acquisition of Collocations Under Different Input Conditions. Language Learning 63:1 ► pp. 121 ff.
Boers, Frank & Seth Lindstromberg
2012. Experimental and Intervention Studies on Formulaic Sequences in a Second Language. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 32 ► pp. 83 ff.
Wray, Alison
2012. What Do We (Think We) Know About Formulaic Language? An Evaluation of the Current State of Play. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 32 ► pp. 231 ff.
Simpson-Vlach, Rita & Nick C. Ellis
2010. An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research. Applied Linguistics 31:4 ► pp. 487 ff.
Stubbs, Michael
2009. Memorial Article: John Sinclair (1933–2007). Applied Linguistics 30:1 ► pp. 115 ff.
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2016. References. Language Learning 66:S1 ► pp. 313 ff.
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