Henrik Gyllstad

List of John Benjamins publications in which Henrik Gyllstad is involved.

Journal

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Edited by Elke Peters

ISSN 0019-0829 | E‑ISSN 1783‑1490

Gyllstad, Henrik, Tanja Kupisch and Anika Lloyd-Smith 2025 Development and initial validation of a yes/no vocabulary test for North Sámi: Drawing on item response theory and signal detection theory ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 176:1, pp. 1–43 | Article

This paper accounts for the development and initial validation of a yes/no vocabulary test of North Sámi called North Sámi Vocabulary Test (NSVT). North Sámi (NS) is an Indigenous language spoken in northern Scandinavia. Being an endangered language, NS is in need of revitalisation efforts. One… read more

Gyllstad, Henrik and Lari-Valtteri Suhonen 2017 Is attrition a type of learning? Modelling change in the multilingual mental lexicon Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke, pp. 700–703 | Commentary

Lloyd-Smith, Anika, Henrik Gyllstad and Tanja Kupisch 2017 Transfer into L3 English: Global accent in German-dominant heritage speakers of Turkish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:2, pp. 131–162 | Article

This study is concerned with L3 acquisition in heritage speakers (HSs). The goals are to incorporate HSs into L3 acquisition research and investigate the role of language dominance for predicting L3 transfer. We analyze global accent in German-Turkish early bilinguals, HSs of Turkish, who… read more

Gyllstad, Henrik, Laura Vilkaitė and Norbert Schmitt 2015 Assessing vocabulary size through multiple-choice formats: Issues with guessing and sampling rates ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 166:2, pp. 278–306 | Article

In most tests of vocabulary size, knowledge is assessed through multiple-choice formats. Despite advantages such as ease of scoring, multiple-choice tests (MCT) are accompanied with problems. One of the more central issues has to do with guessing and the presence of other construct-irrelevant… read more

Gyllstad, Henrik, Jonas Granfeldt, Petra Bernardini and Marie Källkvist 2014 Linguistic correlates to communicative proficiency levels of the CEFR: The case of syntactic complexity in written L2 English, L3 French and L4 Italian EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 14 (2014), Roberts, Leah, Ineke Vedder and Jan H. Hulstijn (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Article

This study is a contribution to the empirical underpinning of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), and it aims to identify linguistic correlates to the proficiency levels defined by the CEFR. The study was conducted in a Swedish school setting, focusing on English,… read more