In psycholinguistic research, reaction time data is traditionally obtained in person via
laboratory-based experiments. Recently, data gathered online, whether through …

This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures
the field has been relying on for decades: frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness …

Second language (L2) speakers have especial difficulty learning and processing
morphosyntax. I present a usage-based analysis of this phenomenon. Usage-based …

Several researchers have claimed that low-achieving students, especially second language
students, need explicit academic vocabulary instruction to “catch up” with their age peers …

Psycholinguistic studies have shown that there are many variables implicated in language
comprehension and production. At the lexical level, subjective age of acquisition (AoA), the …

Recently, considerable attention has been given to the effect of the age of acquisition (AoA)
on learning a second language (L2); however, the scarcity of L2 AoA ratings has limited …

This paper examines links between perfect rhymes and text readability and decoding using
a measure of English rhymes called the Perfect Rhymes Dictionary (PeRDict). PeRDict is …

Lexical frequency benchmarks have been extensively used to investigate second language
(L2) lexical sophistication, especially in language assessment studies. However, indices …

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 …

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research. The
authors expertly and critically situate L2 reading and literacy as a multivariate, interactive …