Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

Repetition is a central phenomenon of behavior, and researchers have made extensive use
of it to illuminate psychological functioning. In the language sciences, a ubiquitous form of …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

I apply a recently emerging perspective on the complexity of action selection, the rate–
distortion theory of control, to provide a computational-level model of errors and difficulties in …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

There is substantial evidence that speakers co-ordinate their contributions in dialogue. Until
now, experimental studies of co-ordination have concentrated on the development of shared …

This book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce
you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those …

The present study investigates the role of speech repetition in oral fluency development.
Twenty‐four students enrolled in English‐as‐a‐second‐language classes performed three …

We describe a “centipede's dilemma” that faces the sciences of human interaction. Research
on human interaction has been involved in extensive theoretical debate, although the vast …

The present study is a corpus-based investigation of syntactic priming, ie the tendency to
reuse syntactic constructions. On the basis of data from the ICE-GB corpus, I analyze two …