… This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, examining patterns
across research from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language …

… It is generally accepted that we store representations of individual words in our mental
lexicon. There is growing agreement that the lexicon also contains formulaic language (How are …

… language acquisition If we accept that formulaic language forms part of the adult speaker’s
lexical … The relationship between lexical bundles and other types of formulaic language …

… It is further worth noting that the questions pertaining to the mental lexicon, the processing
of formulaic language, its holistic storage and retrieval – or lack thereof – can only ever be …

… calculate an estimate of recall without a reference lexicon, showing that good performance in
… lexicon conforms much more with human judgment of formulaic language than alternatives. …

… and refined the definition to specify that a collocation is a function of the frequency of a word
appearing in a certain lexical context as compared to its frequency in language as a whole. …

… Another factor speaking in favour of the collocation being formulaic and having lexical status
is position, as apparent in Adj+ Noun collocations. The adjective in such collocations would …

… language, ensuring that your students learn lexical chunks which are of proven frequency
in conversational English.”Despite such efforts, however, Boulton (2010) showed that while …

… One common frequency measure for estimating the degree of productivity of a language
sample is the lexical type-token ratio, calculated by dividing the number of different words (types…

… In recent years, it has been widely argued that formulaic sequences (variously referred to
as lexical phrases, multi-word units, formulas, etc.) should be assigned prominence in second- …