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
Robinson, P. and N. Ellis, N.C. (Eds.) (2008) Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. London: Routledge. Link to the book
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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. (2001). Memory for language. In P. Robinson (Ed.), Cognition and second language instruction (pp. 33-68). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 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. & 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. (2022) Second language learning of morphology. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 6(1), 34–59. download the pdf article.
Ellis, N. C. (2008). Temporal Cognition and Temporal Language the First and Second Times Around. Language Learning, 58: Supplement 1, pp. 115-121. download
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. (1995). Consciousness in second language acquisition: A review of field studies and laboratory experiments. Language Awareness, 4, 123-146. download
Ellis, N. C. (1999). Cognitive approaches to SLA. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 19, 22-42. 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., 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., & 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
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
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. & 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) 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
Pennington, M. C., & Ellis, N. C. (2000). Cantonese speakers’ memory for English sentences with prosodic cues. Modern Language Journal, 84, 372-389. 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., 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
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
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
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., & Schmidt, R. (1997). Morphology and longer-distance dependencies: Laboratory research illuminating the A in SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 19, 145-171. 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. (2004). The processes of second language acquisition. In B. VanPatten, J. Williams, S. Rott, & M. Overstreet (Eds.), Form-meaning connections in second language acquisition (pp. 49-76). Mahwah, NJ. : Erlbaum. download