Stephen Skalicky
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen Skalicky is involved.
2026 Predicting semantic transparency of Chinese QIEs using distributional semantics and lexical frequency International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 13:1, pp. 69–99 | Article
Semantic transparency refers to the relationship between the meanings of whole-words and their constituent morphemes. Mandarin Chinese Quadrisyllabic Idiomatic Expressions (QIEs, also known as [Cheng-Yu]) have a similar property, in which the whole meaning is often more than the summed meanings… read more
2026 Chapter 14. Response time data Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Kessler, Matt (ed.), pp. 289–309 | Chapter
Traditionally the purview of psycholinguistic experiments conducted in controlled laboratory environments, researchers can now deploy response time tasks such as lexical decision tasks or self-paced reading paradigms into experiments run on the internet. Data from such tasks are of interest to… read more
2023 Leaving this unsaid: A case study of empty this in North American satirical newspaper headlines Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 213–231 | Chapter
We investigated the use of this in a large corpus of headlines gathered from three North American satirical newspapers (The Onion, The Beaverton, and The Babylon Bee). There were 551 instances of this in the corpus, 26 of which were used pronominally but without a clear referent, which we dub… read more
2019 Predictors of second language English lexical recognition: Further insights from a large database of second language lexical decision times The Mental Lexicon 14:3, pp. 333–356 | Article
In this study we analyze a large database of lexical decision times for English content words made by speakers of English as an additional language residing in the United States. Our first goal was to test whether the use of statistical measures better able to model variation associated with… read more
