John Osborne

List of John Benjamins publications in which John Osborne is involved.

Osborne, John 2019 Sandra Deshors, Multidimensional Perspectives on Interlanguage. Exploring may and can across Learner Corpora  International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 5:1, pp. 104–108 | Review

Osborne, John 2013 Fluency, complexity and informativeness in native and non-native speech Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora, Gilquin, Gaëtanelle and Sylvie De Cock (eds.), pp. 139–161 | Article

Individual speakers vary considerably in their rate of speech, their syntactic choices, and the organisation of information in their discourse. This study, based on a corpus of monologue productions from native and non-native speakers of English and French, examines the relations between temporal… read more

Osborne, John 2011 Fluency, complexity and informativeness in native and non-native speech Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora, Gilquin, Gaëtanelle and Sylvie De Cock (eds.), pp. 276–298 | Article

Individual speakers vary considerably in their rate of speech, their syntactic choices, and the organization of information in their discourse. This study, based on a corpus of monologue productions from native and non-native speakers of English and French, examines the relations between temporal… read more

Osborne, John 2008 Phraseology effects as a trigger for errors in L2 English: The case of more advanced learners Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Meunier, Fanny and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 67–83 | Article

When language learners produce “simple” errors (e.g. omission of 3rd person -s) on forms where their performance is predominantly target-like, are these errors random instances of backsliding, or is there some pattern to the contexts in which they appear? This chapter looks at four such errors –… read more