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
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. (2022). Fuzzy Representations. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 210-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1366728921000638. 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
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
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. (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. , 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. (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. (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. & 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. (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. (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
Gries, S. Th., & Ellis, N.C. (2015). Statistical measures for Usage-based linguistics. Currents in Language Learning, 2, 228-255. 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. 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
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
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. (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.