Second Language Acquisition

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
Reviewed in Modern Language Journal
Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Linguistics

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 Journal93, 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