This article focuses on the use of collocations in language learning research (LLR).
Collocations, as units of formulaic language, are becoming prominent in our understanding …

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 …

There is little dispute that formulaic sequences form an important part of the lexicon, but to
date there has been no principled way to prioritize the inclusion of such items in pedagogic …

This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John
Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

There is mounting evidence that language users are sensitive to distributional information at
many grain-sizes. Much of this research has focused on the distributional properties of …

My first encounters with formulaic language date back to the mid 1990s during my time as a
teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) …

Using eye-tracking, we investigate on-line processing of idioms in a biasing story context by
native and non-native speakers of English. The stimuli are idioms used figuratively (at the …

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second
Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in …

This study investigated first language (L1) influence on the acquisition of second language
(L2) collocations using a framework based on Kroll and Stewart (1994) and Jiang (2000), by …