Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is an approach to the study of language informed by both
linguistics and psychology. It describes how language interfaces with cognition, and how it …

Abstract The International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE) is a new
learner corpus designed for a reliable contrastive interlanguage analysis of varied English …

Native speakers of a language, it seems, can fill time with talk easily, speak smoothly,
appropriately, correctly, with ease and effortlessness. But it appears extremely difficult to …

This article presents a selective review of the work carried out recently in second language
acquisition (SLA) research which makes use of oral learner corpora and computer …

This study tracks the development of syntactic complexity in the writing of two beginning
German as a second language learners with English as a first language over four semesters …

This study explores ab initio development of syntactic complexity in a longitudinal corpus of
learner German writing from a Dynamic Usage-Based perspective. It contributes to the …

Error annotation is a key feature of modern learner corpora. Error identification is always
based on some kind of reconstructed learner utterance (target hypothesis). Since a single …

This paper shows how contrastive analysis and interlanguage analysis can be combined
into a model which aims to detect phenomena of transfer, explain them and evaluate them in …

As is well-known, corpus linguistics is an inherently distributional discipline: corpora really
only contain strings of elements–letters/characters in the typical case of corpora as text files …

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is a truly interdisciplinary field at the intersection of
psychology, linguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and educational science …