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Idiom Acquisition and Usage-Based Language Learning Theory
The learning of idiomatic expressions has been reported as notoriously difficult in both native and second language contexts. The past several... -
Demystifying Bilingualism How Metaphor Guides Research towards Mythification
This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative...
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Introduction
Chinese schematic idioms are observed to behave productively in discourse with different selections of lexical morp2007hemes in the open slots (Zhang... -
RastrOS Project: Natural Language Processing contributions to the development of an eye-tracking corpus with predictability norms for Brazilian Portuguese
This article presents RastrOS, a new eye-tracking corpus of eye movement data from university students during silent reading of paragraphs of texts...
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Chinese Linguistics: Striving to Keep Pace with the World
(On June 4, 2003 China Reading Weekly published the text of a speech at the Tsinghua University Linguistics Symposium “Linguistic Research in China:... -
Morphosyntactic Processing in SLA: An Interview with Alison Gabriele
Alison Gabriele is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Second Language Acquisition and Processing Lab at the University of Kansas, where she... -
An Experimental Synthesis
This chapter is devoted to the data gathered by experimental means, in the areas of first language acquisition, second language acquisition,... -
Introducing Language Variation
The current volume brings together various aspects of language variation in South Asia, viewed from different theoretical lenses. -
Theory Building: A Synergistic Model for Hangul
As a culminating effort, this chapter builds the explanatory theoretical models of visual word processing in Hangul, which also serve as learning... -
Usage-Based Linguistics
Usage-based linguists refer to language learning as entrenchment. It is influenced by both learner external factors and learner internal processes.... -
Two Disciplines: Linguistics and Sociology
Disciplines organise academic knowledge and institutions. Professors belong to at least one discipline. They also contribute to sub-disciplinary... -
The Cohesive Function of the Phonological System in English Texts
Language is a multi-level system that operates on the different levels of semantics, lexis, syntax, phonology, and so on. In studies of the cohesion... -
Cognitive Processing Routes: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Interlinguistic translation, in both its spoken and written forms, must involve SL-TL transfer. Seleskovitch (Langage, langues et mémoire: étude de... -
MT-Oriented Analysis of Chunk Composition in Business Correspondences
This chapter gives an MT-oriented analysis of chunk composition in business English letters, which mainly examines the relationship between chunks... -
Introduction
In this introductory chapter, I discuss the ins and outs of the issue of linguistic feeling—which is defined here, very generally speaking, as one’s... -
New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistics: Section Introduction
This chapter summarizes the chapters in Section I of The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies which discuss recent developments in various... -
New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistics: Introduction
This chapter summarizes the chapters in Section 1 of The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies which discuss recent developments in various... -
Investigating Multilingualism
In this chapter, we introduce research methods that are useful when collecting multilingual data. As the scenarios and contexts illustrated in the...