Victoria A. Murphy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Victoria A. Murphy is involved.
Articles
2026 The role of input variability in generalizing phrasal constructions featuring non-adjacent dependencies: A German as a foreign language primary school intervention Selected Papers from Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 4, Piske, Thorsten and Thomas Herbst (eds.), pp. 109–146 | Article
Controlled experiments demonstrate that increased input variability in the intervener-slot of non-adjacent dependencies (NADs) improves children’s inductive generalization of the dependency (Gómez, 2002). Experiments targeting different linguistic structures show that variability benefits not… read more
2024 Setting research priorities for English as an Additional Language: What do research users want from EAL research? Language Teaching for Young Learners 6:1, pp. 5–31 | Article
We report a priority setting partnership (PSP), which sought to establish the priorities for new research among research users (educators, parents, and learners) in the field of English as an Additional Language (EAL). A steering committee consisting of members of these research user groups was… read more
2018 Chapter 8. Literacy development in linguistically diverse pupils Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields, Miller, David, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice (eds.), pp. 155–182 | Chapter
In this chapter the literacy skills (reading accuracy and comprehension and writing) of minority language learners is in focus. The chapter provides a selective review of some of the theoretical and empirical research which has investigated how minority language learners develop reading and writing… read more