This Element provides a systematic overview and synthesis of corpus-based research into
collocations focusing on the learning and use of collocations by second language (L2) …

Collocational priming is a priming effect induced by collocationally related words; it has
been taken to explain the cognitive reality of collocation. Collocational priming has largely …

This meta-analysis synthesized 35 English studies (130 effect sizes, N= 1,981) that
employed online tasks to investigate the processing of multiword sequences (MWSs). We …

This research explores the usage of sustainability in literature and presents 'three
environments' for addressing sustainability in the Civil and Construction Engineering (CCE) …

This study examined how linguistic complexity features contribute to second language (L2)
processing effort by analyzing the Dutch English-L2 learners' eye movements from GECO …

This study reports on a self‐paced reading experiment exploring whether the figurativeness
of collocations affects L2 processing of collocations. The participants were 40 English native …

In this study, we investigated the accuracy of first language (L1) and second language (L2)
speakers' intuitive judgments of phrasal frequency and collocation strength, and examined …

This paper investigates the collocations produced by a set of fictive motion verbs found in a
specialized corpus representing the language of adventure tourism. Since our ultimate aim …

Formulaic language is becoming an increasingly popular topic of investigation in second
language acquisition research. As linguistic units that provide language users with many …

This study investigates the contribution of receptive collocational competence and receptive
vocabulary knowledge to L2 general language proficiency, and how well collocational …