In General

Language and cognition; second and foreign language acquisition; cognitive science; corpus linguistics; psycholinguistics; applied linguistics; emergentism, dynamic systems and complex systems approaches to language; reading and spelling acquisition in different languages; computational modeling; cognitive linguistics.

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In the Research Topic Index below, you will find listed a range of publications on each theme.

Second and foreign language acquisition: psycholinguistic, cognitive, emergentist and connectionist approaches to second language acquisition; child language acquisition; the applied cognitive psychology of second language instruction;

Applied psycholinguistics: frequency effects in language processing; neighbourhood effects in determining strength of category attraction and construction productivity; design and evaluation of effective language instruction.

Emergentism

Language as a Complex Adaptive System

Usage-based approaches to language acquisition

Cognitive linguistics

Corpus linguistics: the development and analysis of corpus materials for written Welsh; development of computer software for language- and word-processing in Welsh: on-line dictionaries and spell- and grammar-checkers; computer-assisted language learning.

Implicit and explicit learning and memory: dissociations; implicit and explicit learning of language and their interactions; implicit and explicit memory representations of language; attention and learning; brain representation of language; explicit instruction and the role of consciousness and awareness in learning.

Construction grammar: verb argument constructions; vocabulary and collocation knowledge, cognitive linguistics; how robust linguistic constructions emerge from usage; language acquisition as rational association learning.

Reading and spelling acquisition: longitudinal studies of reading and spelling acquisition and parallel computational simulations; cross-linguistic comparisons of learning to read in a variety of scripts and languages (including English, Welsh, Dutch, German, Greek, Albanian, Japanese hiragana and kanji); the development of reading and spelling tests.

Computational modelling: connectionist and exemplar models of the emergence of language structure in the quasi-regular domains of reading, spelling, morphology, lexis and linguistic categories; neighbourhood and frequency effects; chunking.

Working memory: phonological short-term memory and the central executive in learning language, the acquisition of reading and spelling, and mental calculation.

Imagery: interactions between imagery, semantic and lexical representations; imagery and memory; visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile and motor imagery, their measurement and effects; grounding lexical meaning.

Developmental dyslexia: differential deficit studies; the nature of the core deficit in developmental dyslexia; dyslexia subtypes; the presentation of dyslexia in different orthographies.

Research Topic Index