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Essentials of a Theory of Language Cognition by ELLIS, NICK C.

“…Cognition is not just 'in the head'; it extends well beyond the skull and the skin. Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science views cognition as being embodied,…”
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Cognition, Corpora, and Computing: Triangulating Research in Usage‐Based Language Learning by Ellis, Nick C.

“…Usage‐based approaches explore how we learn language from our experience of language. Related research thus involves the analysis of the usage from which…”
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An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research by Simpson-Vlach, Rita, Ellis, Nick C.

“…This research creates an empirically derived, pedagogically useful list of formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing, comparable with the Academic…”
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Statistical Measures for Usage-Based Linguistics by Gries, Stefan Th, Ellis, Nick C.

“…The advent of usage‐/exemplar‐based approaches has resulted in a major change in the theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of…”
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Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing by Murakami, Akira, Ellis, Nick C.

“…We investigated whether the accuracy of grammatical morphemes in second language (L2) learners’ writing is associated with usage‐based distributional factors…”
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Selective Attention and Transfer Phenomena in L2 Acquisition: Contingency, Cue Competition, Salience, Interference, Overshadowing, Blocking, and Perceptual Learning by Ellis, Nick C

“…If first language is rational in the sense that acquisition produces an end-state model of language that is a proper reflection of input and that optimally…”
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Language Acquisition as Rational Contingency Learning by Ellis, Nick C

“…This paper considers how fluent language users are rational in their language processing, their unconscious language representation systems optimally prepared…”
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Introducing Registered Reports at Language Learning: Promoting Transparency, Replication, and a Synthetic Ethic in the Language Sciences by Marsden, Emma, Morgan‐Short, Kara, Trofimovich, Pavel, Ellis, Nick C.

“…The past few years have seen growing interest in open science practices, which include initiatives to increase transparency in research methods, data…”
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Language Usage and Second Language Morphosyntax: Effects of Availability, Reliability, and Formulaicity by Guo, Rundi, Ellis, Nick C

“…A large body of psycholinguistic research demonstrates that both language processing and language acquisition are sensitive to the distributions of linguistic…”
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Gradient forests: calculating importance gradients on physical predictors by Ellis, Nick, Smith, Stephen J, Pitcher, C. Roland

“…In ecological analyses of species and community distributions there is interest in the nature of their responses to environmental gradients and in identifying…”
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Global analysis of depletion and recovery of seabed biota after bottom trawling disturbance by Hiddink, Jan Geert, Jennings, Simon, Sciberras, Marija, Szostek, Claire L., Hughes, Kathryn M., Ellis, Nick, Rijnsdorp, Adriaan D., McConnaughey, Robert A., Mazor, Tessa, Hilborn, Ray, Collie, Jeremy S., Pitcher, C. Roland, Amoroso, Ricardo O., Parma, Ana M., Suuronen, Petri, Kaiser, Michel J.

“…Bottom trawling is the most widespread human activity affecting seabed habitats. Here, we collate all available data for experimental and comparative studies…”
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THE ROLES OF PHONOLOGICAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY AND WORKING MEMORY IN L2 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY LEARNING by Martin, Katherine I., Ellis, Nick C.

“…This study analyzed phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and working memory (WM) and their relationship with vocabulary and grammar learning in an artificial…”
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The Dynamics of Second Language Emergence: Cycles of Language Use, Language Change, and Language Acquisition by ELLIS, NICK C.

“…This article outlines an emergentist account whereby the limited end-state typical of adult second language learners results from dynamic cycles of language…”
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Construction Learning as a Function of Frequency, Frequency Distribution, and Function by ELLIS, NICK C., FERREIRA-JUNIOR, FERNANDO

“…This article considers effects of construction frequency, form, function, and prototypicality on second language acquisition (SLA). It investigates these…”
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Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper by Beckner, Clay, Blythe, Richard, Bybee, Joan, Christiansen, Morten H., Croft, William, Ellis, Nick C., Holland, John, Ke, Jinyun, Larsen-Freeman, Diane, Schoenemann, Tom

“…Language has a fundamentally social function. Processes of human interaction along with domain‐general cognitive processes shape the structure and knowledge of…”
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SALIENCE, COGNITION, LANGUAGE COMPLEXITY, AND COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS by Ellis, Nick C.

“…In this commentary, Ellis discusses salience, one particular aspect of cognitive difficulty in terms of second language acquisition…”
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Second language learning of morphology by Ellis, Nick C.

“…Second language (L2) speakers have especial difficulty learning and processing morphosyntax. I present a usage-based analysis of this phenomenon. Usage-based…”
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Salience in Second Language Acquisition: Physical Form, Learner Attention, and Instructional Focus by Cintrón-Valentín, Myrna C, Ellis, Nick C

“…We consider the role of physical form, prior experience, and form focused instruction (FFI) in adult language learning. (1) When presented with competing cues…”
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AT THE INTERFACE: DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS OF EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE by Ellis, Nick C.

“…This paper considers how implicit and explicit knowledge are dissociable but cooperative. It reviews various psychological and neurobiological processes by…”
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Formulaic Language in Native and Second Language Speakers: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and TESOL by ELLIS, NICK C., SIMPSON‐VLACH, RITA, MAYNARD, CARSON

“…Natural language makes considerable use of recurrent formulaic patterns of words. This article triangulates the construct of formula from corpus linguistic,…”
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