Nathan Vandeweerd

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nathan Vandeweerd is involved.

Journal

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

General Editor: Tove Larsson and Magali Paquot

ISSN 2215-1478 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1486

Vandeweerd, Nathan and Klara Arvidsson 2025 Not just quantity but quality: The link between types of target language use and the development of phraseological sophistication during study abroad Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 10:1, pp. 102–122 | Article

This study investigates which types of target language (TL) use best explain the development of phraseological sophistication (mean pointwise mutual information of verb + direct object collocations) in argumentative essays written by second language learners of French during a nine-month sojourn… read more

Yang, Linsey C., Wenwei Dong, Nathan Vandeweerd and Jet Hoek 2025 Automatic discourse segmentation of L1 and L2 spoken English transcripts International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: Online-First Articles | Article

Natural language processing (NLP) tools, primarily trained on L1 written English, have achieved remarkable performance, but are rarely used in L2 learner data. This study leverages a rule-based segmenter to automatically segment spoken English discourse by both L1 speakers and learners,… read more

Vandeweerd, Nathan 2021 fsca: French syntactic complexity analyzer International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2, pp. 259–274 | Article

This article reports on an open-source R package for the extraction of syntactic units from dependency-parsed French texts. To evaluate the reliability of the package, syntactic units were extracted from a corpus of L2 French and were compared to units extracted manually from the same corpus.… read more

Vandeweerd, Nathan, Alex Housen and Magali Paquot 2021 Applying phraseological complexity measures to L2 French: A partial replication study International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2, pp. 197–229 | Article

This study partially replicates Paquot’s (2018, 2019) study of phraseological complexity in L2 English by investigating how phraseological complexity compares across proficiency levels as well as how phraseological complexity measures relate to lexical, syntactic and morphological complexity… read more