Usage-based approaches

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

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., O’Donnell, M. B., & Römer, U. (2013). Usage-Based Language: Investigating the Latent Structures that Underpin Acquisition. Currents in Language Learning, 1, Language Learning, 63: Suppl 1., pp. 25-51. download

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

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

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. (2022). Fuzzy Representations. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25, 210-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1366728921000638. 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. & Wulff, S. (2014). Usage-based approaches to SLA. In B. VanPatten &  J. Williams (Eds.)., Theories in second language acquisition: An introduction (2nd Edn), chapter 6.. NY: Routledge. 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. (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

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. & 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. (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. & 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. , 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). 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. & 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. (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

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

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).  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. & 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. & 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

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., 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

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

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. , 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. 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. (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 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. (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

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