Tess Fitzpatrick
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tess Fitzpatrick is involved.
Yearbook
Articles
2010 Choosing the best tools for comparative analyses of texts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:4, pp. 429–473 | Article
What measurements should linguists use when comparing texts written by different writers? We report aspects of a systematic evaluation of 381 different language measures derived from 200 analytic tools, carried out during the pilot for a study exploring genetic contributions to language variation.… read more
2008 Why can't you just leave it alone? Deviations from memorized language as a gauge of nativelike competence Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Meunier, Fanny and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 123–147 | Article
This chapter reports an investigation into the capacity of language learners to improve their performance through the memorization of specifically targeted linguistic material. Six intermediate/advanced learners of English memorized nativelike versions of conversational turns that they anticipated… read more
2006 Habits and rabbits: Word associations and the L2 lexicon EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 6 (2006), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., Marta Medved Krajnovic and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović (eds.), pp. 121–145 | Article
Word associations have traditionally been used in linguistic research as a means of accessing information about the organisation of the mental lexicon. A number of important studies have revealed differences in word association behaviour in the L1 and the L2, but have failed to find consistent… read more



