Western University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Western University*

Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Pejman Habibie & Richard D. Sawyer

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 8] 2025. | course book

Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary

Edited by Stuart Webb

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[Benjamins Current Topics, 109] 2020. | edited volume

Approaches to learning, testing, and researching L2 vocabulary: Special issue of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics 169:1 (2018)

Edited by Stuart Webb

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism

[ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 169:1] 2018. | special issue

The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings

Edited by Tiffany Judy & Silvia Perpiñán

Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 3] 2015. vi, 362 pp. |

Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns

Edited by Ileana Paul

Subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 210] 2014. xiii, 217 pp. |

Determiners: Universals and variation

Edited by Jila Ghomeshi, Ileana Paul & Martina Wiltschko

Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 147] 2009. vii, 247 pp. | edited volume

Fact and Value in Emotion

Edited by Louis C. Charland & Peter Zachar

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Philosophy

[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 4] 2008. vi, 212 pp. | edited volume

Romantic Poetry

Edited by Angela Esterhammer

Subjects Comparative literature & literary studies

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XVII] 2002. xii, 537 pp. | edited volume

And Along Came Boas: Continuity and revolution in Americanist anthropology

AuthorRegna Darnell

Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | History of linguistics | Languages of North America | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 86] 1998. xviii, 333 pp. | course book

Olkoniemi, Henri & Penny M. Pexman 2026 Training studies provide new insights about mechanisms of irony development

Keywords: pragmatic development | irony | sarcasm | training studies | teaching

Pragmatics & Cognition 33:1 pp. 56–74 | article

Sawyer, Richard D. & Pejman Habibie 2025 Reflectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research and scholarship

In: Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics, Habibie, Pejman & Richard D. Sawyer (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 8] pp. 1–19

Iwaizumi, Emi 2025 How much receptive affix knowledge do L1 speakers and L2 learners have?

Keywords: Receptive Word Part Knowledge | Word Part Levels Test | Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge | Updated Vocabulary Levels Test | Vocabulary Testing

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 176:1 pp. 111–146 | article

Tavakoli, Parvaneh & Farahnaz Faez 2025 What makes a task difficult?: Pre-service teacher analysis of task difficulty

Keywords: task-based language teaching | task difficulty | task features | pre-service teacher

TASK 5:1 p. 88 | article

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce 2024 Complements and adjuncts of one in L2 English noun drop

Keywords: noun ellipsis | complements | adjuncts | L2 English

In: Current Perspectives on Generative SLA – Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl & Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 70] pp. 63–86

Zhang, Bei & Farahnaz Faez 2024 Language teacher self-efficacy beliefs for pronunciation instruction: The case of ESL teachers in Canada

Keywords: language teacher self-efficacy (LTSE) | pronunciation instruction | teacher language proficiency | pronunciation proficiency | English as a second language (ESL)

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:2 pp. 154–178 | article

Luo, Liting & Frank Boers 2024 Testing the benefits of relating figurative idioms to their literal underpinnings: The role of individual differences

Keywords: figurative idioms | glosses | mixed methods | meaning inferencing

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22:2 pp. 309–329 | article

Shakoury, Kayvan & Frank Boers 2024 Metaphors for multiculturalism in the Canadian context

Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Theory | conceptual metaphor | metaphor theme | multiculturalism | multicultural society | discourse analysis | Canada

Metaphor and the Social World 14:2 pp. 304–321 | article

Friesen, Deanna & Chastine Lamoureux 2023 Metalinguistic awareness in bilinguals

In: Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok, Luk, Gigi, John A. E. Anderson & John G. Grundy (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 64] pp. 169–187

Habibie, Pejman & Sue Starfield 2023 AI-mediated English for research publication purposes: Are we there yet?

Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 4:1 pp. 1–4 | editorial

Maziyah Mohamed, Mirrah & Debra Jared 2024 The distributional properties of prefixes influence lexical decision latencies: Evidence from Malay

Keywords: word recognition | morphology | Malay | prefixes | lexical decision | morphological family size | prefix consistency | distributional properties

The Mental Lexicon 18:2 pp. 218–264 | article

Iwaizumi, Emi & Stuart Webb 2023 The effect of test format on productive recall of derivatives

Keywords: testing vocabulary knowledge | test format effects | frequency effects | productive derivational knowledge | receptive vocabulary knowledge

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 175:2 pp. 242–270 | article

Suvorov, Ruslan 2022 Listening: Exploring the underlying processes

Keywords: listening | technology | eye tracking | process-oriented approaches | methods

In: Research methods in instructed second language acquisition, Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura & YouJin Kim (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3] pp. 257–280

Iwaizumi, Emi & Stuart Webb 2022 Vocabulary: A guide to researching instructed second language vocabulary acquisition

Keywords: intentional vocabulary learning | incidental vocabulary learning | testing vocabulary knowledge | receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge | single-word | multiword items

In: Research methods in instructed second language acquisition, Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura & YouJin Kim (eds.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3] pp. 181–206

Herry-Bénit, Nadine, Stéphanie Lopez, Takeki Kamiyama & Jeff Tennant 2021 The interphonology of contemporary English corpus (IPCE-IPAC)

Keywords: interphonology | phonetic learner corpora | EFL | transcription | coding

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:2 pp. 275–289 | article

Laufer, Batia, Stuart Webb, Su Kyung Kim & Beverley Yohanan 2021 How well do learners know derived words in a second language?: The effect of proficiency, word frequency and type of affix

Keywords: derived words | derivational knowledge | word families | affix difficulty | word frequency | L2 vocabulary size

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 172:2 pp. 229–258 | article

Katz, Albert N. 2020  Producing metaphor (and other forms of non-literal language) in the laboratory: Structural and pragmatic effects as seen from the perspective of an experimental psycholinguist

Keywords: online discussion task | vehicle completion task | passage completion task | life event generation task

In: Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John & Andrew Gargett (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 10] pp. 37–54

Webb, Stuart 2020 Guest editorial

In: Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 109] pp. 1–4

Webb, Stuart 2020 Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary

In: Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 109] p.  ff.

Jelani, Nurul Aini Mohd & Frank Boers 2020 Examining incidental vocabulary acquisition from captioned video: Does test modality matter?

Keywords: audio-visual input | vocabulary acquisition | captions | test modality | TED Talks

In: Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 109] pp. 169–191

Webb, Stuart & Anna Piasecki 2020 Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning

Keywords: word writing | vocabulary learning | ecological approach

In: Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 109] pp. 73–94

Sasao, Yosuke & Stuart Webb 2020 The guessing from context test

Keywords: vocabulary | guessing from context | diagnostic test | equivalent forms | validation

In: Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 109] pp. 117–142

Bui, Thuy, Frank Boers & Averil Coxhead 2019 Extracting multiword expressions from texts with the aid of online resources: A classroom experiment

Keywords: Formulaic language | multiword expressions | vocabulary | EFL | reading

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171:2 pp. 221–252 | article

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce 2019 The Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis: Possible application to Spanish clitics

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 pp. 816–821 | article commentary

Tararova, Olga 2019 You are other: Negative attitudes of the in-group and out-group in Chipilo, Mexico

Keywords: language maintenance | Chipilo | Mexico

Spanish in Context 16:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Appel, Randy, Pavel Trofimovich, Kazuya Saito, Talia Isaacs & Stuart Webb 2019 Lexical aspects of comprehensibility and nativeness from the perspective of native-speaking English raters

Keywords: second language speech | vocabulary | comprehensibility | nativeness

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170:1 pp. 24–52 | article

Rodgers, Michael P. H. & Stuart Webb 2019 Incidental vocabulary learning through viewing television

Keywords: incidental | vocabulary learning | television | extensive viewing | video

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171:2 pp. 191–220 | article

Webb, Stuart 2018 Guest editorial

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 169:1 pp. 1–4 | introduction

Amjadian, Ehsan, Diana Inkpen, T. Sima Paribakht & Farahnaz Faez 2018 Distributed specificity for automatic terminology extraction

Keywords: automatic terminology extraction | neural networks | distributed specificity | representation learning | word embeddings

Terminology 24:1 pp. 23–40 | article

Jelani, Nurul Aini Mohd & Frank Boers 2018 Examining incidental vocabulary acquisition from captioned video: Does test modality matter?

Keywords: audio-visual input | vocabulary acquisition | captions | test modality | TED Talks

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 169:1 pp. 169–190 | article

Webb, Stuart & Anna Piasecki 2018 Re-examining the effects of word writing on vocabulary learning

Keywords: word writing | vocabulary learning | ecological approach

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 169:1 pp. 72–94 | article

Sasao, Yosuke & Stuart Webb 2018 The guessing from context test

Keywords: vocabulary | guessing from context | diagnostic test | equivalent forms | validation.

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 169:1 pp. 115–141 | article

Oliviéri, Michèle, Jean-Pierre Lai & David Heap 2017 Partial subject paradigms and feature geometry in Northern Occitan dialects

Keywords: clitic subjects | null subjects | meteorological verbs | partial paradigms | Occitan

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario, Perpiñán, Silvia, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar & Adriana Soto-Corominas (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] pp. 147–167

Perpiñán, Silvia, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar & Adriana Soto-Corominas 2017 Introduction

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11: Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario, Perpiñán, Silvia, David Heap, Itziri Moreno-Villamar & Adriana Soto-Corominas (eds.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 11] pp. 1–5

Perpiñán, Silvia 2018 Language change at the individual level

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6 pp. 750–753 | article commentary

Paul, Ileana 2018 Reduced structure in Malagasy headlines

Keywords: malagasy | headlines | register variation | truncation | word order

Linguistic Variation 17:2 pp. 292–308 | article

Sulpizio, Simone, Giacomo Spinelli & Cristina Burani 2017 STRESYL: An Italian Stress-in-Syllables database for reading research

Keywords: syllable | syllabic structure | stress | database | Italian orthography

Written Language & Literacy 20:1 p. 80 | article

Webb, Stuart, Yosuke Sasao & Oliver Ballance 2017 The updated Vocabulary Levels Test: Developing and validating two new forms of the VLT

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 168:1 pp. 33–69 | article

Titone, Debra, Veronica Whitford, Agnieszka Lijewska & Inbal Itzhak 2016 Chapter 1. Bilingualism, executive control, and eye movement measures of reading: A selective review and re-analysis of bilingual vs. multilingual reading data

In: Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism, Schwieter, John W. (ed.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 2] pp. 11–46

Dang, This Ngoc Yen & Stuart Webb 2017 Evaluating lists of high-frequency words

Keywords: high frequency word lists | corpus study | lexical coverage | headwords

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 167:2 pp. 132–158 | article

Botero, Diana P. 2017 Examining L2 acquisition of the Spanish pluperfect subjunctive: Monolingual variation and L1 English learners’ difficulties

Keywords: interfaces | L2 acquisition | pluperfect subjunctive | conditionals | English | Spanish

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 29:2 pp. 487–522 | article

Perpiñán, Silvia 2016 Catalan-Spanish bilingualism continuum: The expression of non-personal Catalan clitics in the adult grammar of early bilinguals

Keywords: early bilingualism | simultaneous bilingualism | sequential bilingualism | cL2 | Catalan | Spanish | clitics | en | hi | locative | partitive | oblique

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5 pp. 477–513 | article

Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce & Marcela Otálora 2016 L2 knowledge of gender and number agreement in Spanish noun ellipsis

Keywords: nominal ellipsis | gender | number | L2 acquisition | Spanish

In: Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in Honour of Juana M. Liceras, Alba de la Fuente, Anahí, Cristina Martínez Sanz & Elena Valenzuela (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 51] p. 99

Paul, Ileana 2014 Cross-linguistic investigations of nominalization patterns

In: Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns, Paul, Ileana (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 210] pp. vii–xiv

Polzer, Jessica, Francesca V. Mancuso & Debbie Laliberte Rudman 2014 Risk, responsibility, resistance: Young women’s negotiations of identity and healthy citizenship in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination narratives

Keywords: positioning | identity | discourse | risk | human papillomavirus (HPV)

Narrative Inquiry 24:2 pp. 281–308 | article

Perpiñán, Silvia 2013 Optionality in bilingual native grammars

In: First Language Attrition, Schmid, Monika S. & Barbara Köpke (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 48] pp. 127–156

de Villiers, Jessica, Brooke Myers & Robert J. Stainton 2014 Revisiting pragmatic abilities in autism spectrum disorders: A follow-up study with controls

Keywords: pragmatics | pragmatic determinants of literal content | autism spectrum disorder

Pragmatics & Cognition 21:2 pp. 253–269 | article

de Garavito, Joyce Bruhn 2011  Subject/object asymmetries in the grammar of bilingual and monolingual Spanish speakers: Evidence against connectionism

Keywords: nativism | connectionism | subjects | objects | inchoative constructions | impersonal constructions | Spanish

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:2 pp. 111–148 | article

Perpiñán, Silvia 2012 Optionality in bilingual native grammars

Keywords: L1 attrition | optionality | word order | interface hypothesis | processing

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 2:2 pp. 312–341 | article

Darnell, Regna 2011 Reassessing the Contribution of Franz Boas (1858–1941): Conference report

Historiographia Linguistica 38:1/2 pp. 253–254 | article

Paul, Ileana 2010 Specification and inversion: Evidence from Malagasy

In: Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam & Lisa deMena Travis (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] pp. 213–230

Paivio, Allan 2010 Dual coding theory and the mental lexicon

Keywords: multimodal coding | verbal coding | common coding | imagen | concreteness-abstractness | context | logogen | mental representation

The Mental Lexicon 5:2 pp. 205–230 | article

Darnell, Regna 2009 Franz Boas

In: Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 2] pp. 41–49

Paul, Ileana 2009 On the presence versus absence of determiners in Malagasy

In: Determiners: Universals and variation, Ghomeshi, Jila, Ileana Paul & Martina Wiltschko (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 147] pp. 215–242

Stainton, Robert J. 2009 Perry, Wittgenstein’s builders, and metasemantics

Keywords: Donald Davidson | lexical syntax and semantics | John Perry | sententialism | metasemantics | subsentential speech | Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2 pp. 203–221 | article

Pexman, Penny M., Stephen J. Lupker & Yasushi Hino 2007 Cross-modal repetition priming with homophones provides clues about representation in the word recognition system

Keywords: lexical decision | homophones | blend state | word recognition | semantic | phonology | orthography | repetition priming | cross-modal priming

The Mental Lexicon 2:2 pp. 183–214 | article

Borgonovo, Claudia, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Philippe Prévost & Elena Valenzuela 2006 Specificity in Spanish: The syntax/semantics interface in SLA

EUROSLA Yearbook 6:1 pp. 57–78 | article

Heap, David 2008 Constraining Optimality: Clitic sequences and Feature Geometry

In: Clitic and Affix Combinations: Theoretical perspectives, Heggie, Lorie & Francisco Ordóñez (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 74] p. 81

Heap, David 2011 Split subject pronoun paradigms: Feature geometry and underspecification

In: Current Issues in Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 29th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Ann Arbor, 8–11 April 1999, Satterfield, Teresa, Christina Tortora & Diana Cresti (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 220] pp. 129–144

Sakamoto, Mitsuyo 2001 Exploring societal support for L2 learning and L1 maintenance: A socio-cultural perspective

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:2 pp. 43–60 | article

Darnell, Regna 2002  Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American stories from the first half of the twentieth century. By Julia S. Falk

Historiographia Linguistica 27:2/3 pp. 437–439 | book review

Darnell, Regna 1997  Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition. Ed. by George W. Stocking, Jr.

Historiographia Linguistica 24:3 pp. 421–423 | book review

Turner, Nigel E. & Albert Katz 1997 The availability of conventional and of literal meaning during the comprehension of proverbs

Pragmatics & Cognition 5:2 pp. 199–233 | article

Katz, Albert 1996 Pragmatics and the processing of metaphors: Category dissimilarity in topic and vehicle asymmetry

Pragmatics & Cognition 4:2 pp. 265–304 | article

Darnell, Regna 1995 The Structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Historiographia Linguistica 22:1/2 pp. 217–234 | article

Darnell, Regna 1991 On the occasion of Silversteinian Musings on the State of Sapiriana

Historiographia Linguistica 18:2/3 pp. 419–424 | other

Darnell, Regna 1990 Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and the Americanist text tradition

Historiographia Linguistica 17:1/2 pp. 129–144 | article

Richmond, Ian M. 1989 Review of Actes du colloque international sur l’aménagement linguistique edited by Lorne Laforge (1987)

Language Problems and Language Planning 13:2 pp. 174–177 | book review

Richmond, Ian M. 1988 Review of Analyzing Intercultural Communication edited by Karlfield Knapp, Werner Enninger & Annelie Knapp-Potthoff (1987)

Language Problems and Language Planning 12:3 pp. 266–268 | book review

Eramian, Gregory M. 1988 Edward Sapir and the Prague School

Historiographia Linguistica 15:3 pp. 377–399 | article

Richmond, Ian M. 1985 Kanadaj banprogramoj: Ĉu sukceso lingva aŭ lingvopolitika?

Language Problems and Language Planning 9:1 pp. 17–30 | article

Eramian, Gregory M. 1978 Some Notes on Trubetzkoy’s Abandonment of Disjunctive Oppositions

Historiographia Linguistica 5:3 pp. 275–288 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.