Publications by theme

Associative learning / Contingency learning

Ellis, N. C. (2006). Language acquisition as rational contingency learning. Applied Linguistics. 27 (1), 1-24. download

Ellis, N. C. (2006). Selective Attention and Transfer Phenomena in L2 Acquisition: Contingency, Cue Competition, Salience, Interference, Overshadowing, Blocking, and Perceptual Learning. Applied Linguistics, 27 (2), 164-194. download

Murakami, A., & Ellis, N. C. (2022). Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing. Language Learning. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12500

Guo, R. & Ellis, N. C. (2021). Language Usage and Second Language Morphosyntax: Effects of Availability, Reliability, and Formulaicity. Frontiers in psychology 12. Link to Online Article

Ellis, N. C., O’Donnell, M. B., & Römer, U. (2014). The Processing of Verb-Argument Constructions is Sensitive to Form, Function, Frequency, Contingency, and Prototypicality. Cognitive Linguistics, 25 (1), 55-98. download

Ellis, N. C., O’Donnell, M. B., & Römer, U. (2014). Second Language Verb-Argument Constructions are Sensitive to Form, Function, Frequency, Contingency, and Prototypicality. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 4 (4), 405-431. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). Usage-based and Form-focused Language Acquisition: The Associative Learning of Constructions, Learned-attention, and the Limited L2 Endstate. Chapter 16 in P. Robinson and N. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. London: Routledge download

Ellis, N. C. , O’Donnell, M., & Römer, U. (2014). Does language Zipf right along? Investigating robustness in the latent structures of usage and acquisition. In J. Connor-Linton & L. Amoroso (Eds.). Measured language: quantitative studies of acquisition, assessment, processing and variation (pp. 33-50). Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (2006) SLA: The Associative Cognitive CREED. In B. VanPatten, J. Williams & A. F. Williams (Eds.)., Theories in second language acquisition: An introduction. Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum. download

Ellis, N. C. & O’Donnell, M. B. (2014) Construction learning as category learning: A cognitive analysis. In T. Herbst, S. Schueller, and H-J. Schmid (Eds.), Constructions – Collocations – Patterns (pp. 63-89). Berlin: de Gruyter.

Ellis, N. C. (2002). Frequency effects in language acquisition: A review with implications for theories of implicit and explicit language acquisition. (Target article) Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 143-188. download

Ellis, N. C. (2002). Reflections on frequency effects in language acquisition: A response to commentaries. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 297-339. download

O’Donnell, M. B., Römer, U. & Ellis, N. C. (2013). The development of formulaic language in first and second language writing: Investigating effects of frequency, association, and native norm. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 18, (1), 83-108 download

Ellis, N. C. & O’Donnell, M. (2012). Statistical construction learning: Does a Zipfian problem space ensure robust language learning? In J. Rebuschat & J. Williams (Eds.) Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. download

Ellis, N. C. (2013). Frequency-based grammar and the acquisition of tense-aspect in L2 learning. In Rafael Salaberry & Llorenç Comajoan (Eds.) Research Design and Methodology in Studies on Second Language Tense and Aspect (pp. 89-118). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. download

Ellis, N. C. (2006). Cognitive perspectives on SLA: The Associative-Cognitive CREED. AILA Review, 19, 100-121 download

Ellis, N. C., Natsume, M., Stavropoulou,, K., Hoxhallari, L., van Daal, V. H. P., Polyzoe, N., Tsipa, M., & Petalas, M. (2004). The effects of orthographic depth on learning to read alphabetic, syllabic, and logographic scripts. Reading Research Quarterly, 39, 438-468. download

Attention and Learning

Ellis, N. C. & Sagarra, N. (2010). The bounds of adult language acquisition: Blocking and learned attention. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32 (4), 553-580. download

Ellis, N. C. & Sagarra, N. (2010). Learned Attention Effects in L2 Temporal Reference: The First Hour and the Next Eight Semesters. Language Learning, 60: Supplement 2, 85-108. download

Ellis, N. C. & Sagarra, N. (2011). Learned attention in adult language acquisition: A replication and generalization study and meta-analysis. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 33 (4), 589-624. download

Ellis, N. C. (2006). Language acquisition as rational contingency learning. Applied Linguistics. 27 (1), 1-24. download

Ellis, N. C. (2012). Learned attention and blocking. In P. Robinson (Ed.) The Routledge Encyclopedia of SLA (pp. 370-372). New York: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). Blocking and Learned Attention in Language Acquisition. In CogSci 2007, Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth Cognitive Science Conference. Nashville, Tennesse, August 1-4, 2007. download

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Salience in Usage-based SLA. In Gass, S., Spinner, P., & Behney, J. (Eds.), Saliency in Second Language Acquisition. NY: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C., Hafeez, K., Martin, K. I., Chen, L., Boland, J., & Sagarra, N. (2014). An eye-tracking study of learned attention in Second Language Acquisition. Applied Psycholinguistics, 35 (3), 547-579. download

Cintrón-Valentín, M. & Ellis, N. C. (2016). Salience in Second Language Acquisition: Physical form, learner attention, and instructional focus. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1284. Doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01284. Language Sciences, Special Topic: Perceptual linguistic salience: modeling causes and consequences. Link to Online Article

Cintrón-Valentín, M. & & Ellis, N. C. (2015). Exploring the Interface: Explicit Focus-on-Form Instruction and Learned Attentional Biases in L2 Latin. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37, 197-235. download

Ellis, N. C. (2005). At the interface: Dynamic interactions of explicit and implicit language knowledge. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 305-352. download

Sagarra, N., & Ellis, N. C. (2013). From seeing adverbs to seeing morphology. Language experience and adult acquisition of L2 tense. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35, 261-290. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). Implicit and explicit knowledge about language. In J. Cenoz & N. H. Hornberger (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Second Edition, Volume 6: Knowledge about Language (pp. 119-132). Springer. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). The Weak-Interface, Consciousness, and Form-focussed instruction: Mind the Doors. In S. Fotos & H. Nassaji (Eds.), Form Focused Instruction and Teacher Education: Studies in Honour of Rod Ellis, pp. 17-33, Oxford: Oxford University Press. download

Autobiographical memory

Williams, J. M. G., Ellis, N. C., Tyers, C., Healy, H., Rose, G., & Macleod, A. K. (1996). The specificity of autobiographical memory and imageability of the future. Memory and Cognition, 24, 116-125. download

Williams, J. M. G., Healy, H., & Ellis, N. C. (1999). The effect of imageability and predicability of cues in autobiographical memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 555-579. download

Bilingualism

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Fuzzy Representations. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 210-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1366728921000638. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). Words and their usage: Commentary on the Special Issue on The Bilingual Mental Lexicon, The Mental Lexicon, 3:3, 376-386. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). Dynamic Systems Theory and SLA: The wood and the trees. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 10 (1), 23-25. download

Ellis, N. C. (2005). Introduction to Part 1: Acquisition. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. de Groot (Eds.) Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 3-7). Oxford: Oxford University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (1992). Linguistic relativity revisited: The bilingual word-length effect in working memory during counting, remembering numbers, and mental calculation. In R. Harris (Ed.) Cognitive processing in bilinguals (pp. 137-156). North Holland: Elsevier. download

Ellis, N. C., & Laporte, N. (1997). Contexts of acquisition: Effects of formal instruction and naturalistic exposure on second language acquisition. In A. M. B. de Groot and J. F. Kroll (Eds.), Tutorials in bilingualism: Psycholinguistic perspectives (pp. 53-83). Hillsdale, N. J. : Lawrence Erlbaum. download

Captioning

Cintrón-Valentín, M., Lorenzo García-Amaya, L., & Ellis, N. C. (2019). Captioning and Grammar Learning in the L2 Spanish Classroom. The Language Learning Journal, 47. DOI: 10.1080/09571736.2019.1615978. download

Child language acquisition

Ellis, N. C. & Ogden, D. C. (2015). Language Cognition: comments on ‘The Ubiquity of Frequency Effects in First Language.’ Journal of Child Language, 42, 182-186. download

Chunking

Ellis, N. C. (1996). Sequencing in SLA: Phonological Memory, Chunking and Points of Order. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 18, 91-126. download

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Chunking. In Hundt, M., Mollin, S, and Pfenninger, S. (Eds.) The Changing English Language: Psycholinguistic Perspectives (pp. 113-147), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (2003). Constructions, chunking, and connectionism: The emergence of second language structure. In C. Doughty & M. H. Long (Eds.), Handbook of second language acquisition (pp. 33-68). Oxford: Blackwell. download

Cognitive approaches

Ellis, N. C. (2019). Essentials of a theory of language cognition. Modern Language Journal, 103 (Supplement 2019), 39-60. DOI: 10.1111/modl.12532. Link to Online Article

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Fuzzy Representations. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 210-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1366728921000638. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022) Second language learning of morphology. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 6(1), 34–59. download the pdf article.

Ellis, N. C. (2005). At the interface: Dynamic interactions of explicit and implicit language knowledge. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 305-352. download

Ellis, N. C. (2001). Memory for language. In P. Robinson (Ed.), Cognition and second language instruction (pp. 33-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (1999). Cognitive approaches to SLA. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 19, 22-42. download

Ellis, N. C. & Wulff, S. (2019). Cognitive approaches to L2 acquisition. In John W. Schwieter & Alessandro Benati (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning (pp. 41-61). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (2006). Cognitive perspectives on SLA: The Associative-Cognitive CREED. AILA Review, 19, 100-121 download

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Cognition, corpora, and computing: Triangulating research in usage-based language learning. Language Learning, 67, S1, 40-65. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12215 download

Ellis, N. C. (2012). Corpus study: Cognitive implications. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics: Corpus Linguistics (General Editor Carol A. Chapelle; Area Editor Michael Stubbs). Wiley-Blackwell. download

Ellis, N. C., Römer, U. & O’Donnell, M. B. (2016). Usage-based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Processing: Cognitive and Corpus Investigations of Construction Grammar. Language Learning Monograph Series. Wiley-Blackwell. This was published as a monograph in 2016. It may well now be out of print. But it was jointly published as Language Learning 66 Supplement 1 and if you can access Language Learning, you can access this.
Reviewed in Review of Cognitive Linguistics (2017) by Teresa Cadierno
Reviewed in ICAME Journal (2017) by Fanny Meunier
Reviewed in Applied Linguistics (2017) by Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Reviewed in Functions of Language (2017) by Annette Fahrner
Reviewed in Cognitive Linguistics (2018) by Andrea Tyler
Reviewed in International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (2018) by Mark McAndrews

Beaton, A., Gruneberg, M., & Ellis, N. C. (1995). Retention of foreign vocabulary learned using the Keyword method: A ten year follow-up. Second Language Research, 11, 112-120. download

Ellis, N. C. (1995). The cognitive psychology of foreign language vocabulary learning. The Language Teacher, 19, 12-16. TLT archive

Cognitive linguistics

Robinson, P. and N. Ellis, N.C. (Eds.) (2008) Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. London: Routledge. Link to the book
Reviewed in Modern Language Journal
Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Linguistics

Ellis, N. C. & Cadierno, T. (2009). Constructing a second language. Introduction to the Special Section. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 111-139. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022) Second language learning of morphology. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 6(1), 34–59. download the pdf article.

Ellis, N. C. & Robinson, P. (2008). An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Instruction. Chapter 1 in P. Robinson & N. C. Ellis (Eds.), A handbook of cognitive linguistics and SLA. London: Routledge download

Robinson, P., & Ellis, N. C. (2008). Conclusion: Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Instruction—Issues for Research. Chapter 19 in P. Robinson & N. C. Ellis (Eds.), A handbook of cognitive linguistics and SLA. London: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C. & Ferreira-Junior, F. (2009). Construction learning as a function of frequency, frequency distribution, and function. Modern Language Journal, 93, 370-385. download

Ellis, N. C. & Ferreira-Junior, F. (2009). Constructions and their acquisition: Islands and the distinctiveness of their occupancy. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 188-221. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Römer, U., Skalicky, S., & Ellis, N. C. (2020). Verb-argument constructions in advanced L2 English learner production: Insights from corpora and verbal fluency tasks. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16 (2), 303-331. DOI:10.1515/cllt-2016-0055 download

Ellis, N. C. & Wulff, S. (2020). Usage-based approaches to L2 acquisition. In VanPatten, B., Keating, G. D., & Wulff, S. (Eds.), Theories in Second Language Acquisition: An introduction. (pp. 63-82). New York & London: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C. (2016) Frequency in language learning and language change. In Heike Behrens & Stefan Pfänder (Eds.), Experience counts: Frequency effects in language (pp. 239-256). Berlin: de Gruyter. download

Ellis, N. C. (2019). Essentials of a theory of language cognition. Modern Language Journal, 103 (Supplement 2019), 39-60. DOI: 10.1111/modl.12532. Link to Online Article

Ellis, N. C. (2010). Constructing a second language: Learning as a function of frequency, frequency distribution, form and function. In M. Pütz and L. Sicola (Eds.) Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition: Inside the Learner’s Mind (pp. 27-48). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

Römer, U., O’Donnell, M. B., & Ellis, N. C. (2014). Second Language Learner Knowledge of Verb–Argument Constructions: Effects of Language Transfer and Typology. Modern Language Journal, 98 (4), 952-975. download

Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Lexical decision and semantic processing. Language and Cognition, 8, 391-420. download

Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Visual recognition thresholds and naming. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 14 (1), 105-135. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). The dynamics of second language emergence: Cycles of language use, language change, and language acquisition. Modern Language Journal, 92:2, 232-249. download

Ellis, N. C., & Schmidt, R. (1997). Morphology and longer-distance dependencies: Laboratory research illuminating the A in SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 19, 145-171. download

Collocation acquisition and Idiomaticity

Ellis, N. C. & Ogden, D. C. (2017). Thinking about multiword constructions: Usage-based approaches to acqusition and processing. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9 (3), 604-620. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12256 download

Ellis, N. C. , Frey, E., & Jalkanen, I. (2009). The Psycholinguistic Reality of Collocation and Semantic Prosody (1): Lexical Access. In U. Römer & R. Schulze, (Eds.) Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface (pp. 89-114). Studies in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

Ellis, N. C. & Frey, E. (2009). The Psycholinguistic Reality of Collocation and Semantic Prosody (2): Affective Priming. In R. Corrigan, E.Moravcsik, H. Ouali & K. Wheatley (Eds.) Formulaic Language (pp. 473-497). Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

Ellis, N. C. (1997). Vocabulary acquisition: Word structure, collocation, grammar, and meaning. In M. McCarthy & N. Schmidt (Eds.) (1997), Vocabulary: description, acquisition and pedagogy (pp. 122-139). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Computer Assisted Learning

Ellis, N. C. & Bogart, P. (2007). Speech and Language Technology in Education: The Perspective from SLA Research and Practice. In Proceedings of the SlaTE Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop, Farmington, Pennsylvania USA, October 1-3, 2007. download

Ellis, N. C. (1995). The psychology of foreign language acquisition: Implications for CALL. International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), 8, 103-128. download

Ellis, N. C., Roberts, D., & O’Dochartaigh, C. (2000). IT for the Welsh language: the CySill project. In P. W. Thomas & J. Mathias (Eds.) Developing minority languages: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on minority languages (pp. 698-721). Department of Welsh, Cardiff University: Gomer Press.

Ellis, N. C., O’Dochartaigh, C., Roberts, D., & Rea, E. (1992). Technoleg gwybodaeth ac ieithoedd llai eu defnydd: Rhai ymatebion diweddar yng Nghymru. Yn Ll. Davies (Golygydd) Yr ieithoedd llai – Cymathu newydd-ddyfodiaid (pp. 101-124). Caaerfyrddin: Cydweithgor Dwyieithrwydd yn Nyfed.

Link to CySill – IT for spelling and grammar support in the Welsh language

Ellis, N. C., O’Dochartaigh, C., Roberts, D., & Rea, E. (1992). Information technology and the lesser used languages: Some recent Welsh responses. In Ll. Davies (Ed.) The lesser used languages- Assimilating newcomers (pp. 101-124). Carmarthen: Joint Working Party on Bilingualism in Dyfed.

Ellis, N. C., O’Dochartaigh, C., Hicks, W., Morgan, M., & Laporte, N. (2001). CRONFA ELECTRONEG O GYMRAEG (CEG: A 1 million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh. Visit the corpus

Connectionist approaches

Ellis, N. C. (1998). Emergentism, connectionism and language learning. Language Learning, 48, 631-664. download

Ellis, N. C., & Schmidt, R. (1998). Rules or associations in the acquisition of morphology? The frequency by regularity interaction in human and PDP learning of morphosyntax. Language and Cognitive Processes, 13, 307-336. download

Ellis, N. C. (1998). Review of Elman, J. L., Bates, E. A., Johnson, M. H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Parisi, D., & Plunkett, K. (1996). Rethinking innateness: a connectionist perspective on development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 20 (3), 451.

Ellis, N. C. (1997). Review of Levy, J. P, Bairaktaris, D., Bullinaria, J. A., & Cairns, P. (Eds.) (1995). Connectionist models of memory & language. UCL Press, London. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 11, 498-500.

Ellis, N. C. with Larsen-Freeman, D. (2009). Constructing a second language: Analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic constructions from usage. Language Learning, 59, Supplement 1, 93-128. download

Construction grammar

Ellis, N. C. & Cadierno, T. (2009). Constructing a second language. Introduction to the Special Section. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 111-139. download

Ellis, N. C. (2013). Second language acquisition. In Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar (pp. 365-378), G. Trousdale & T. Hoffmann (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. & Ferreira-Junior, F. (2009). Construction learning as a function of frequency, frequency distribution, and function. Modern Language Journal, 93, 370-385. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022) Second language learning of morphology. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 6(1), 34–59. download the pdf article.

Ellis, N. C. & Ferreira-Junior, F. (2009). Constructions and their acquisition: Islands and the distinctiveness of their occupancy. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 188-221. download

Ellis, N. C. & Wulff, S. (2015). Second language acquisition. In Dabrowska, E. & Divjak, D. (Eds.) Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 409-431). DeGruyter Mouton. download

Ellis, N. C. , Römer, U., & O’Donnell, M. (2015). Second language constructions: Usage-based acquisition and transfer too. In John Schwieter (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Processing (pp. 234-254). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (2019). Usage-based theories of Construction Grammar: Triangulating Corpus Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. In Jesse Egbert & Paul Baker (Eds.), Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis (pp. 239-267). New York & London: Routledge. download

Römer, U., Roberson, A., O’Donnell, M. & Ellis, N. C. (2014). Linking learner corpus and experimental data in studying second language learners’ knowledge of verb-argument constructions. ICAME Journal, 38, 115-135. download

Ellis, N. C. (2018). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Visual recognition thresholds and naming. In A. María Piquer-Píriz & R. Alejo-González (Eds.), Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions, and typology (pp. 105-13). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Lexical decision and semantic processing. Language and Cognition, 8, 391-420. download

Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Visual recognition thresholds and naming. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 14 (1), 105-135. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). The dynamics of second language emergence: Cycles of language use, language change, and language acquisition. Modern Language Journal, 92:2, 232-249. download

Corpus Linguistics

Ellis, N. C., O’Dochartaigh, C., Hicks, W., Morgan, M., & Laporte, N. (2001). CRONFA ELECTRONEG O GYMRAEG (CEG: A 1 million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh. Visit the corpus

Gries, S. Th., & Ellis, N.C. (2015). Statistical measures for Usage-based linguistics. Currents in Language Learning, 2, 228-255. download

Wulff, S., & Ellis, N. C. (2018). Usage-based approaches to SLA. In D. Miller, F. Bayram, J. Rothman, L. Serratrice (Eds.), Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields. (pp. 37-56). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Cognition, corpora, and computing: Triangulating research in usage-based language learning. Language Learning, 67, S1, 40-65. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12215 download

Römer, U., O’Donnell, M. & Ellis, N. C. (2015). Using COBUILD grammar patterns for a large-scale analysis of verb-argument constructions: Exploring corpus data and speaker knowledge. In Maggie Charles, Nick Groom, & Suganthi John (Eds.) Corpora, Grammar, Text and Discourse: In Honour of Susan Hunston (pp. 43-71). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

O’Donnell, M. B., Römer, U. & Ellis, N. C. (2015). The development of formulaic language in first and second language writing: Investigating effects of frequency, association, and native norm. In Sebastian Hoffmann, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (Eds.) Current issues in Phraseology (pp. 83-108). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

Ellis, N. C., Simpson-Vlach, R., Römer, U., O’Donnell, M., & Wulff, S. (2015). Learner corpora and formulaic language in SLA. In Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Fanny Meunier (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research. (pp. 357-378). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Wulff, S., Ellis, N. C., Römer, U., Bardovi-Harlig, K, LeBlanc, C. (2009) The acquisition of tense-aspect: Converging evidence from corpora and telicity ratings. Modern Language Journal, 93, 354-369. download

Ellis, N. C. & Simpson-Vlach, R. (2009). Formulaic language in native speakers: Triangulating psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and education. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 5, 61-78. download

Cross-linguistic comparisons

Developmental dyslexia

Baddeley, A. D., Logie, R. H., & Ellis, N. C. (1988). Characteristics of developmental dyslexia. Cognition, 29, 197-228. download

Baddeley, A. D., Ellis, N. C., Miles, T. R., & Lewis, V. (1982). Developmental and acquired dyslexia: A comparison. Cognition, 11, 185-199. download

Ellis, N. C. (1981). Visual and name coding in dyslexic children. Psychological Research, 43, 201-218. download

Ellis, N. C. (1981). Information processing views of developmental dyslexia I-IV. This series of four review papers was published in Dyslexia Review, 4 (1), 10-21 and 4 (2), 5-17.

Miles, T. R., & Ellis, N. C. (1981). A lexical encoding deficiency II: Clinical observations. In G. Th. Pavlidis and T. R. Miles (Eds.) Dyslexia research and its applications to education (pp. 217-244). Chichester: Wiley.

Ellis, N. C., & Miles, T. R. (1981). A lexical encoding deficiency I: Experimental evidence. In G. Th. Pavlidis and T. R. Miles (Eds.) Dyslexia research and its applications to education (pp. 177-216). Chichester: Wiley.

Ellis, N. C. (1994). The cognitive psychology of developmental dyslexia. In G. Hales (Ed.) Dyslexia matters: A celebratory contributed volume to honour T. R. Miles (pp. 70-82). London: Whurr Publishers Ltd. download

Ellis, N. C. (1989). Reading development, dyslexia and phonological skills. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 10, 551-567. download

Ganschow, L. & Ellis, N. C. (Eds.) (2001). Dyslexia and English as a second language (including bilingualism): Issues, research, diagnosis, instruction, and future direction. Conference commemorative booklet, the 52nd Annual Conference of the International Dyslexia Association. Baltimore MD: International Dyslexia Association.

Ellis, N. C. (1990). Reading, phonological processing and STM: Interactive tributaries of development Journal of Research in Reading, 13, 107-122. download

Ellis, N. C., & Miles, T. R. (1978). Visual information processing speed as a determinant of reading speed. Journal of Research in Reading, 1, 108. download

Ellis, N. C., & Miles, T. R. (1978). Visual information processing in dyslexic children. In M. M. Gruneberg, P. E. Morris, & R. N. Sykes (Eds.) Practical aspects of memory (pp. 561-569). London: Academic Press.

Ellis, N. C., & Miles, T. R. (1977). Dyslexia as a limitation in the ability to process information. Bulletin of the Orton Society, XXVII, 72. download

Ganschow, L. & Ellis, N. C. (2001). Introduction. In L. Ganschow & N. C. Ellis (Eds.) Dyslexia and English as a second language (including bilingualism): Issues, research, diagnosis, instruction, and future direction. Conference commemorative booklet, the 52nd Annual Conference of the International Dyslexia Association. Baltimore MD: International Dyslexia Association.

4 E Cognition / Post Cartesian Cognitive Science (Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended Cognition)

Ellis, N. C. (2019). Essentials of a theory of language cognition. Modern Language Journal, 103 (Supplement 2019), 39-60. DOI: 10.1111/modl.12532. Link to Online Article

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Ellis, N. C. (2015). Cognitive and social aspects of learning from usage. In Teresa Cadierno and Søren Eskildsen (Eds.), Usage-based perspectives on second language learning, pp. 49-73. Berlin: DeGruyter Mouton. download

Emergentist approaches

Ellis, N. C. (1998). Emergentism, connectionism and language learning. Language Learning, 48, 631-664. download

Ellis, N. C. , O’Donnell, M., & Römer, U. (2015). Usage-based language learning. In Brian MacWhinney and William O’Grady (Eds.) The Handbook of Language Emergence (pp. 163-180). Wiley-Blackwell. download

Ellis, N. C. (2012). Emergentism. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics: Cognitive Approaches (General Editor Carol A. Chapelle; Area Editor Marianne Gullberg & John Williams). Wiley-Blackwell. download

‘The Five Graces Group’ (Beckner, C., Blythe, R., Bybee, J., Christiansen, M. H., Croft, W., Ellis, N. C., Holland, J., Ke, J., Larsen-Freeman, D., Schoenemann, T.) (2009). Language is a complex adaptive system. Position paper, Language Learning, 59, Supplement 1, 1-27. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). The dynamics of second language emergence: Cycles of language use, language change, and language acquisition. Modern Language Journal, 92:2, 232-249. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Ellis, N. C. (1997). The epigenesis of language: Acquisition as a sequence learning problem. In A. Wray & A. Ryan (Eds.) Evolving models of language (pp. 41-57). British Studies in Applied Linguistics, 12. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd. download

Ellis, N. C. & Larsen-Freeman, D. (2006). Language Emergence: Implications for Applied Linguistics. Introduction to the Special Issue. Applied Linguistics, 27(4), 558-589. download

Ellis, N. C. & Larsen-Freeman, D. (Eds). (2006). Language Emergence: Implications for Applied Linguistics. Special issue. Applied Linguistics, 27(4). link

Guo, R. & Ellis, N. C. (2021). Language Usage and Second Language Morphosyntax: Effects of Availability, Reliability, and Formulaicity. Frontiers in psychology 12. Link to Online Article

Douglas Fir Group (Atkinson, D., Byrnes, H., Doran, M., Duff, P., Ellis, N., Hall, J. K., Johnson, K., Lantolf, J., Larsen–Freeman, D., Negueruela, E., Norton, B., Ortega, L., Schumann, J., Swain, M., and Tarone, E.) (2016). A transdisciplinary framework for SLA in a multilingual world. Modern Language Journal, 100, 19-47. download

Hulstijn, J. H., Young, R. F., Ortega, L., Bigelow, M., DeKeyser, R., Ellis, N. C., Lantolf, J. P., Mackey, A., & Talmy, S. (2014). Bridging the Gap: Cognitive and social approaches to research in second language learning and teaching. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36 (3), 361-421 download

Ellis, N.C. (2012) Variable competence. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2, 264-268. download

Ellis, N. C. & O’Donnell, M. (2011). Robust Language Acquisition – an Emergent Consequence of Language as a Complex Adaptive System. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3512-3517). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. link

Ellis, N. C. (2011). The emergence of language as a complex adaptive system. In J. Simpson (Ed.), Handbook of Applied Linguistics (pp. 666-679), London: Routledge/Taylor Francis. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). Dynamic Systems Theory and SLA: The wood and the trees. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 10 (1), 23-25. download

English for Academic Purposes (EAP)

Simpson-Vlach, R., & Ellis, N. C. (2010). An Academic Formulas List (AFL). Applied Linguistics, 31, 487-512. download article download appendices

Ellis, N. C. & Simpson-Vlach, R. (2008). An Academic Formulas List (AFL): Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Education. In Proceedings of TaLC8 – The 8th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference, Lisbon, 4-6 July, 2008. download

Form-focussed instruction

Ellis, N. C. (1993). Rules and instances in foreign language learning: Interactions of explicit and implicit knowledge. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 5, 289-318. download

Ellis, N. C. (2009). Optimizing the input: Frequency and in Usage-based and Form-focussed Learning. In M. H. Long & C. Doughty (Eds.), Handbook of Language Teaching (pp. 139-158). Oxford: Blackwell. download

Ellis, N. C.. (2008). The Psycholinguistics of the Interaction Hypothesis. In A. Mackey and C. Polio (Eds.), Multiple Perspectives on Interaction in SLA: Second language research in Honor of Susan M. Gass. ( pp. 11-40). New York: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C. (1995). Consciousness in second language acquisition: A review of field studies and laboratory experiments. Language Awareness, 4, 123-146. download

Ellis, N. C. (2005). At the interface: Dynamic interactions of explicit and implicit language knowledge. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 305-352. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022) Second language learning of morphology. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 6(1), 34–59. download the pdf article.

Pennington, M. C., & Ellis, N. C. (2000). Cantonese speakers’ memory for English sentences with prosodic cues. Modern Language Journal, 84, 372-389. download

Ellis, N. C. (1994). Consciousness in second language learning: Psychological perspectives on the role of conscious processes in vocabulary acquisition. AILA Review, 11, 37-56. download

Formulaic language and phraseology

Ellis, N. C. (2008). Phraseology: The periphery and the heart of language. Preface to F. Meunier and S. Granger (Eds.), Phraseology in language learning and teaching, pp. 1-13.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

Simpson-Vlach, R., & Ellis, N. C. (2010). An Academic Formulas List (AFL). Applied Linguistics, 31, 487-512. download article download appendices

Ellis, N. C. (2012). Formulaic language and second language acquisition: Zipf and the phrasal teddy bear. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 32, 17-44. download

Ellis, N. C. Simpson-Vlach, R., & Maynard, C. (2008). Formulaic Language in Native and Second-Language Speakers: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 41:3, 375-396. (Special Issue on Psycholinguistics and TESOL). download

Frequency Effects and the probabilistic tuning of the language system

Ellis, N. C. (2002). Reflections on frequency effects in language acquisition: A response to commentaries. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 297-339. download

Ellis, N. C. (2011). Frequency-based accounts of SLA. In S. Gass & A. Mackey (Eds.), Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, (pp. 193-210), London: Routledge/Taylor Francis. download

Ellis, N. C. (2012). Frequency effects. In P. Robinson (Ed.) The Routledge Encyclopedia of SLA (pp. 260-265). New York: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C. & Ogden, D. C. (2015). Language Cognition: comments on ‘The Ubiquity of Frequency Effects in First Language.’ Journal of Child Language, 42, 182-186. download

Ellis, N. C. & Collins, L. (2009). Input and Second Language Acquisition: The roles of frequency, form and function. Introduction to the special issue. Modern Language Journal, 93, 329-335. download

Ellis, N. C. (2012). What can we count in language, and what counts in language acquisition, cognition, and use? In S. Th. Gries & D. S. Divjak (Eds.) Frequency effects in language learning and processing (Vol. 1). (pp. 7-34). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. download

Guo, R. & Ellis, N. C. (2021). Language Usage and Second Language Morphosyntax: Effects of Availability, Reliability, and Formulaicity. Frontiers in psychology 12. Link to Online Article

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Cognition, corpora, and computing: Triangulating research in usage-based language learning. Language Learning, 67, S1, 40-65. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12215 download

Gries, S. Th., & Ellis, N.C. (2015). Statistical measures for Usage-based linguistics. Currents in Language Learning, 2, 228-255. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Fuzzy Representations. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 210-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1366728921000638. download

Ellis, N. C. (2005). Review of Bod, R., Hay, J., & Jannedy, S. (Eds.). (2003). Probabilistic linguisitics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26 (4), 619-621.

Ellis, N. C. (2005). Review of Bybee, J., & Hopper, P. (Eds.). (2001). Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26 (4), 618-619.

Health Psychology

Ellis, N. C., Stubbs, S., & Hargreaves, I. (1990). Community health staffs’ prejudice and knowledge about AIDS Medical Teacher, 12, 77-82.

Miller, B. Y., Jones, R. S. P., & Ellis, N. C. (1993). Group differences in response to charity images of children with Down’s syndrome. Down’s Syndrome: Research and Practice, 1, 118-122.Grant, G., Nolan, M. R., & Ellis, N. C. (1990). A reassessment of the Malaise Inventory. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 25, 170-178. download

Nolan, M. R., Grant, G., & Ellis, N. C. (1990). Stress is in the eye of the beholder: reconceptualising the measure of carer burden. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 15, 544-555. download

Lees, S., & Ellis, N. C. (1990). The design of a stress-management programme for student and staff nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 15, 1-17. download

Imagery and grounding in perceptual symbol systems

Ellis, N. C. (2001). Memory for language. In P. Robinson (Ed.), Cognition and second language instruction (pp. 33-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Ellis, N. C., & Beaton, A. (1993). Factors affecting the learning of foreign language vocabulary: Imagery keyword mediators and phonological short-term memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 46A, 533-558. download

Ellis, N. C. (1991). In verbal memory the eyes see vividly, but ears only faintly hear, fingers barely feel and the nose doesn’t know: Meaning and the links between the verbal system and modalities of perception and imagery. In R. H. Logie & M. Denis (Eds.) Imagery and cognition (pp. 313-329). Plenum Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (1990). Meaning and the links between the verbal system and modalities of perception and imagery or In verbal memory the eyes see vividly, but ears only faintly hear, fingers barely feel and the nose doesn’t know. In R. H. Logie (Ed.) Images in cognition: Proceedings of the third European workshop on imagery and cognition (pp. 41-44). University of Aberdeen: Department of Psychology. download

Implicit and Explicit learning of language

Ellis, N. C. (Ed.) (1994). Implicit and explicit learning of languages. (599 pp.) London: Academic Press. ISBN: 0-12-237475-4. Link to Google Book version

Ellis, N. C. (2015). Implicit and explicit learning: Their dynamic interface and complexity. In P. Rebuschat (Ed.), Implicit and explicit learning of languages (pp. 3-23). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download

Ellis, N. C. (2005). At the interface: Dynamic interactions of explicit and implicit language knowledge. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 305-352. download

Ellis, N. C. (1993). Rules and instances in foreign language learning: Interactions of explicit and implicit knowledge. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 5, 289-318. download

Cintrón-Valentín, M. & Ellis, N. C. (2015). Exploring the Interface: Explicit Focus-on-Form Instruction and Learned Attentional Biases in L2 Latin. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37, 197-235. download

Ellis, N. C. (2011). Implicit and explicit SLA and their interface. In C. Sanz & R. Leow (Eds.) Implicit and Explicit Language Learning: Conditions, Processes, and Knowledge in SLA & Bilingualism (pp. 35-47). Georgetown University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Implicit and explicit knowledge about language. In Cenoz, J., & Gorter, D. (Eds.) (pp. 113-124). Language Awareness and Multilingualism. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-02325-0_7-1 download

Ellis, N. C. (1994). Implicit and explicit processes in language acquisition: An introduction. In N. Ellis (Ed.) Implicit and explicit learning of languages (pp. 1-32). London: Academic Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (1993). Interactions of explicit and implicit knowledge in foreign language learning. In J. Chapelle & M-Th. Claus (Eds.) Memory and memorization in acquiring and learning languages (pp. 97-142). C. L. L. Centre de Langues a Louvain-la-Neuve et Woluwe.

Ellis, N. C. (1994). Vocabulary acquisition: The implicit ins and outs of explicit cognitive mediation In N. Ellis (Ed.) Implicit and explicit learning of languages (pp. 211-282). London: Academic Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). Usage-based and form-focused SLA: The implicit and explicit learning of constructions. In A. Tyler, K. Yiyoung and M.Takada (Eds.) Language in the Context of Use: Cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter. download

Ellis, N. C. (1995). Consciousness in second language acquisition: A review of field studies and laboratory experiments. Language Awareness, 4, 123-146. download

Ellis, N. C. (1994). Consciousness in second language learning: Psychological perspectives on the role of conscious processes in vocabulary acquisition. AILA Review, 11, 37-56. download

Language as a Complex Adaptive System (LaCAS)

Ellis, N. C. (2008). The dynamics of second language emergence: Cycles of language use, language change, and language acquisition. Modern Language Journal, 92:2, 232-249. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Ellis, N. C. (2016). Salience, Cognition, Language Complexity, and Complex Adaptive Systems. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 38 (2), 341-351. download

Ellis, N. C. & Larsen-Freeman, D. (Eds). (2006). Language Emergence: Implications for Applied Linguistics. Special issue. Applied Linguistics, 27(4). link

Ellis, N. C. & Larsen-Freeman, D. (2006). Language Emergence: Implications for Applied Linguistics. Introduction to the Special Issue. Applied Linguistics, 27(4), 558-589. download

Ellis, N. C. (2011). The emergence of language as a complex adaptive system. In J. Simpson (Ed.), Handbook of Applied Linguistics (pp. 666-679), London: Routledge/Taylor Francis. download

Ellis, N. C. (2007). Dynamic Systems Theory and SLA: The wood and the trees. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 10 (1), 23-25. download

Language Change

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Salience. In Hundt, M., Mollin, S, and Pfenninger, S. (Eds.) The Changing English Language: Psycholinguistic Perspectives (pp. 71-92), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022) Second language learning of morphology. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 6(1), 34–59. download the pdf article.

Language Cognition

Ellis, N. C. (2019). Essentials of a theory of language cognition. Modern Language Journal, 103 (Supplement 2019), 39-60. DOI: 10.1111/modl.12532. Link to Online Article

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Ellis, N. C. (2001). Memory for language. In P. Robinson (Ed.), Cognition and second language instruction (pp. 33-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Salience in Usage-based SLA. In Gass, S., Spinner, P., & Behney, J. (Eds.), Saliency in Second Language Acquisition. NY: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Fuzzy Representations. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 210-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1366728921000638. download

Ellis, N. C. (1995). The psychology of foreign language acquisition: Implications for CALL. International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), 8, 103-128. download

Ellis, N. C. (Ed.) (1994). Implicit and explicit learning of languages. (599 pp.) London: Academic Press. ISBN: 0-12-237475-4. Link to Google Book version

Learning Disability

Eayrs, C., & Ellis, N. C. (1990). Charity advertising for people with a mental handicap: A double-edged sword? British Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 349-360. download

Eayrs, C. B., Ellis, N. C., & Jones, R. S. P. (1993). Which label? An investigation into the effects of terminology on public perceptions of and attitudes towards people with learning difficulties. Disability, Handicap and Society, 8, 111-127.

Jones, R. S. P., Wint, D., & Ellis, N. C. (1990). The social effects of stereotyped behaviour. Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 34, 261-268.

Eayrs, C. B., Ellis, N. C., Jones, R. S. P., & Miller, B. (1995). Representations of learning disability in the literature of charity campaigns. In I. Markova & R. Farr (Eds.) Representations of health, illness and handicap (pp. 67-89). Chur, Switzerland: Harwoord Academic Publishers.

Memory

Ellis, N. C. (2001). Memory for language. In P. Robinson (Ed.), Cognition and second language instruction (pp. 33-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. download

Ellis, N. C. (1988). The development of literacy and short-term memory. In M. M. Gruneberg, P. E. Morris & R. N. Sykes (Eds.) Practical aspects of memory: Current research and issues Volume 2: Clinical and educational implications (pp. 361-366). Chichester: Wiley.

Morphosyntax

Ellis, N. C. (2022) Second language learning of morphology. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 6(1), 34–59. download the pdf article.

Guo, R. & Ellis, N. C. (2021). Language Usage and Second Language Morphosyntax: Effects of Availability, Reliability, and Formulaicity. Frontiers in psychology 12. Link to Online Article

Ellis, N. C. & Sagarra, N. (2010). The bounds of adult language acquisition: Blocking and learned attention. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32 (4), 553-580. download

Ellis, N. C. & Sagarra, N. (2010). Learned Attention Effects in L2 Temporal Reference: The First Hour and the Next Eight Semesters. Language Learning, 60: Supplement 2, 85-108. download

Cintrón-Valentín, M. & & Ellis, N. C. (2017). Salience in Second Language Acquisition: Physical form, learner attention, and instructional focus. Blumenthal-Dramé, A. J., Hanulikova, A., & Kortmann, B (Eds.) Perceptual Linguistic Salience: Modeling Causes and Consequences (pp. 89-109). Frontiers e-book. link

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Salience in Usage-based SLA. In Gass, S., Spinner, P., & Behney, J. (Eds.), Saliency in Second Language Acquisition. NY: Routledge. download

Sagarra, N., & Ellis, N. C. (2013). From seeing adverbs to seeing morphology. Language experience and adult acquisition of L2 tense. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35, 261-290. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). The dynamics of second language emergence: Cycles of language use, language change, and language acquisition. Modern Language Journal, 92:2, 232-249. download

Ellis, N. C., & Schmidt, R. (1997). Morphology and longer-distance dependencies: Laboratory research illuminating the A in SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 19, 145-171. download

MultiModality

NLP

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Cognition, corpora, and computing: Triangulating research in usage-based language learning. Language Learning, 67, S1, 40-65. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12215 download

O’Donnell, M. & Ellis, N.C. Towards an Inventory of English Verb Argument Constructions. Proceedings of the Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in Computational Linguistics, 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (pp. 9-16) Los Angeles, June 1–6, 2010.

Prosody

Pennington, M. C., & Ellis, N. C. (2000). Cantonese speakers’ memory for English sentences with prosodic cues. Modern Language Journal, 84, 372-389. download

Psycholinguistic approaches

Ellis, N. C., & Beaton, A. (1993). Psycholinguistic determinants of foreign language vocabulary learning. Language Learning, 43, 559-617. downloadRömer, U., Skalicky, S., & Ellis, N. C. (2020). Verb-argument constructions in advanced L2 English learner production: Insights from corpora and verbal fluency tasks. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16 (2), 303-331. DOI:10.1515/cllt-2016-0055 download

Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Lexical decision and semantic processing. Language and Cognition, 8, 391-420. download

Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Visual recognition thresholds and naming. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 14 (1), 105-135. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). Words and their usage: Commentary on the Special Issue on The Bilingual Mental Lexicon, The Mental Lexicon, 3:3, 376-386. download

Ellis, N. C., & Beaton, A. (1995). Psycholinguistic determinants of foreign language vocabulary learning. In B. Harley (Ed.), Lexical issues in second language learning (pp. 107-165). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers.

Reading and spelling acquisition

Hoxhallari, L., van Daal, V. H. P., & Ellis, N. C. (2004). Learning to read words in Albanian: A skill easily acquired. Scientific Studies of Reading, 8, 153-166. download

Ellis, N. C., & Hooper, A. M. (2001). Why learning to read is easier in Welsh than in English: Orthographic transparency effects evinced with frequency-matched tests. Applied Psycholinguistics, 22:4, 571-599. download

Cataldo, S., & Ellis, N. C. (1988). Spelling, reading and phonological skills in interactive development. Journal of Research in Reading, 11, 86-109. download

Ellis, N. C., & Large, B. (1988). The early stages of reading: A longitudinal study. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2, 47-76. download

Ellis, N. C., & Large, B. (1987). The development of reading: as you seek so shall you find. British Journal of Psychology, 78, 1-28. download

Ellis, N. C. (1997). Interactions in the development of reading and spelling: Stages, strategies, and exchange of knowledge. In C. Perfetti , L. Rieben, & M. Fayol (Eds.), Learning to spell: Research, theory, and practice across languages (pp. 271-294). Hillsdale, N. J. : Lawrence Erlbaum. download

Ellis, N. C. (1993). Two small longitudinal studies of reading and spelling development. In H. Grimm & H. Skowronek (Eds.) Language acquisition problems and reading disorders: aspects of diagnosis and intervention (pp. 257-282). New York: de Gruyter.

Brown, G. D. A., & Ellis, N. C. (1994) Issues in spelling research: An overview. In G. D. A. Brown & N. C. Ellis,(Eds.). Handbook of spelling: Theory, process and intervention (pp. 3-26). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Ellis, N. C., & Cataldo, S. (1990). The role of spelling in learning to read. Language and Education, 4, 1-28. download

Ellis, N. C. (1994). Longitudinal studies of spelling acquisition. In G. D. A. Brown & N. C. Ellis,(Eds.). Handbook of spelling: Theory, process and intervention (pp. 155-178). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. download

Ellis, N. C. (1990). Reading, phonological processing and STM: Interactive tributaries of development Journal of Research in Reading, 13, 107-122. download

Cataldo, S., & Ellis, N. C. (1990). Learning to spell, learning to read. In P. D. Pumphrey & C. D. Elliott (Eds.) Children’s difficulties in reading, spelling and writing (pp. 101-126). Basingstoke: Falmer Press.

Ellis, N. C., Cataldo, S., & Large, B. (1990). ‘Interactions in the development of spelling, reading and phonological skills’ and ‘A longitudinal study of reading development’. In The European inventory of longitudinal research (pp. 202-203). European Science Foundation.

Ellis, N. C., & Cataldo, S. (1992). Spelling is integral to learning to read. In C. Sterling & C. Robson (Eds.) Psychology, spelling and education (pp. 122-142). Avon: Multilingual Matters.

Ellis, N. C. (1991). Spelling and sound in learning to read. In M. J. Snowling & M. Thomson (Eds.) Dyslexia: Integrating theory and practice (pp. 80-94). London: Whurr Publishers Ltd.

Ellis, N. C. (1989). Reading development, dyslexia and phonological skills. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 10, 551-567. download

Brown, G . D. A., & Ellis, N. C. (Eds.) (1994). Handbook of spelling: Theory, process and intervention. (542 pp.) Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN: 0-471-94342-8. Link to Google Book version

Reading in different orthographies

Ellis, N. C. (1994). Writing systems in evolution and by design. In U. Frith, G. Ludi, M. Egli and C-A. Zuber (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on contexts of literacy, Volume III. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation.

Hoxhallari, L., van Daal, V. H. P., & Ellis, N. C. (2004). Learning to read words in Albanian: A skill easily acquired. Scientific Studies of Reading, 8, 153-166. download

Research Methods

Gries, S. Th., & Ellis, N.C. (2015). Statistical measures for Usage-based linguistics. Currents in Language Learning, 2, 228-255. download

Crossley, S., Marsden, E., Ellis, N., Kormos, J., Morgan‐Short, K., Thierry, G. (2020). Introduction of Methods Showcase Articles in Language Learning. Language Learning 70, 5-10. link to online article

Marsden, E., Crossley, C., Ellis, N., Kormos, J., Morgan‐Short, K., Thierry, G. (2019). Inclusion of Research Materials When Submitting an Article to Language Learning. Language Learning 69, 795-801. link to online article

Marsden, E., Morgan-Short, K., Trofimovich, P., & Ellis, N. C. (2018). Introducing Registered Reports at Language Learning: Promoting transparency, replication, and a synthetic ethic in the Language Sciences. Language Learning, 68, 309-320. link to online article

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Cognition, corpora, and computing: Triangulating research in usage-based language learning. Language Learning, 67, S1, 40-65. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12215 download

Ellis, N. C. (2006) Meta-analysis, human cognition, and language learning. In J. Norris and L. Ortega (Eds.) Synthesizing research on language learning and teaching (pp. 301-322). Amsterdam, John Benjamins. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Simpson-Vlach, R., & Ellis, N. C. (2010). An Academic Formulas List (AFL). Applied Linguistics, 31, 487-512. download article download appendices

Coventry, W., Antón-Méndez, I., Ellis, E., Levison, C., Byrne, B., van Daal, V. & Ellis, N. C. (2012). The Etiology of Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition in Australian School Students: A Behaviour-Genetic Study. Language Learning, 62, 880-901. download

Ortega, L., Cumming, A., & Ellis, N. C (Eds.) (2013). Agendas for Language Learning Research. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-1185-9070-6. Link to online volume

Ellis, N. C., O’Dochartaigh, C., Hicks, W., Morgan, M., & Laporte, N. (2001). CRONFA ELECTRONEG O GYMRAEG (CEG: A 1 million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh. Visit the corpus

Salience

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Salience in Usage-based SLA. In Gass, S., Spinner, P., & Behney, J. (Eds.), Saliency in Second Language Acquisition. NY: Routledge. download

Ellis, N. C. (2016). Salience, Cognition, Language Complexity, and Complex Adaptive Systems. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 38 (2), 341-351. download

Sagarra, N., & Ellis, N. C. (2013). From seeing adverbs to seeing morphology. Language experience and adult acquisition of L2 tense. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 35, 261-290. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). The dynamics of second language emergence: Cycles of language use, language change, and language acquisition. Modern Language Journal, 92:2, 232-249. download

Ellis, N. C. (2008). Temporal Cognition and Temporal Language the First and Second Times Around. Language Learning, 58: Supplement 1, pp. 115-121. download

Second Language Acquisition