University of Calgary

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

Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll

Edited by Lindsay Hracs

Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 69] 2024. | edited volume

Heritage learners studying abroad: Special issue of Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 8:2 (2023)

EditorAngela George

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching

[Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 8:2] 2023. v, 137 pp. | special issue

Made-in-Canada Humour: Literary, folk and popular culture

Beverly J. Rasporich

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Topics in Humor Research, 3] 2015. xxi, 300 pp. |

Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I): Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 5:3 (2010)

Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben & Chris Westbury

Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics

[The Mental Lexicon, 5:3] 2011. | special issue

Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part II): Special Issue of The Mental Lexicon 6:1 (2011)

Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben & Chris Westbury

Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics

[The Mental Lexicon, 6:1] 2011. | special issue

The Reflexive Nature of Consciousness

Greg Janzen

Subjects Consciousness research | Philosophy

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 72] 2008. vii, 186 pp. | monograph

Second Language Phonology

John Archibald

Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Phonology

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 17] 1998. xii, 313 pp. | monograph

Nelson, Brett C., Antonio A. González Poot, John Archibald & Darin Flynn 2026 Redeploying dimensions and learning gestures in the acquisition of new sounds: Glottalized consonants in Mayan languages

Keywords: phonetics | phonology | dimensions | enhancement | laryngeals

In: New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania & Silvina Montrul (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 71] pp. 331–357

Teló, Cesar, Ryuichi Suzuki, Lin Lu, Gento Okawa, Tahiyyah Ahmed, Zineb Balmouddane, Mayra Carvajal, Karolyn Chen, Mahdieh (Mah) Fallahnejad, Byunghak Kim, Annika Kovacs, Sawri Madkaikar, Lia Mejía, Alet Odal, Thi Thuy Dung Pham, Yung Flora See, Mary O’Brien & Pavel Trofimovich 2026 A collaborative journey in pronunciation: Lessons from a community-engaged accent bias project

Keywords: participatory action research | citizen science | community engagement | partnership | accent bias | pronunciation | workplace discrimination | workplace diversity | EDI | research methods

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 12:1 pp. 114–130 | brief report | open access

Cai, Wei 2025 Review of Teaching Chinese Characters in the Digital Age: Insights on Current Trends and Future Directions by Caitríona Osborne, Danping Wang & Qi Zhang (2024)

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 60:3 pp. 257–260 | book review

Salgado-Robles, Francisco, Angela George & Brisilda Ndreka 2025 Dialectal variation in secondary Spanish classrooms in the United States: A sociolinguistically informed pedagogical approach to teaching and learning the usted, tú, and vos forms of address

Keywords: adolescent learners | forms of address | heritage speakers | sociolinguistically informed pedagogy | sociolinguistic competence | Spanish | voseo

In: Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin, Solon, Megan, Matthew Kanwit & Aarnes Gudmestad (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 43] pp. 230–259

Shimada, Masako 2025 A comparison of techniques for training L2 Japanese prosody

Keywords: Japanese | prosody training | focused instruction | intelligibility | comprehensibility

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 11:2 pp. 148–173 | article

Kupisch, Tanja & Roswita Dressler 2024 Gender assignment in German as a heritage language in an English-speaking context: A case study of acquisition and maintenance

Keywords: gender assignment | German | heritage speaker | language dominance | cross-linguistic influence

In: Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll, Hracs, Lindsay (ed.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 69] p. 88

George, Angela 2024 L2 intonation perception in learners of Spanish

Keywords: L2 Spanish intonation | variation | yes-no questions | L2 Spanish learners

In: Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll, Hracs, Lindsay (ed.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 69] pp. 144–160

Hracs, Lindsay 2024 Introduction

In: Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll, Hracs, Lindsay (ed.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 69] pp. 1–14

Maczuga, Paulina, Johannes Knaus & Mary Grantham O’Brien 2024 A principled approach to teaching German lexical stress assignment

Keywords: lexical stress | training | processing instruction | input

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:1 pp. 126–137 | article

Dressler, Roswita, Bernd Nuss & Katherine Mueller 2024 The readability of books for immersion schools: Understanding the role of text complexity, context and literary aspects

Keywords: bilingual education | children’s books | immersion | readability | text complexity

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 13:1 pp. 123–137 | article

Salgado-Robles, Francisco & Angela George 2023 Relationship between external factors and development of regional variation (vosotros vs. ustedes) by L2 learners of Spanish in Spain

Keywords: Spanish | vosotros vs. ustedes | service-learning | housing type | program length

In: Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish, Zahler, Sara, Avizia Long & Bret Linford (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 37] pp. 20–53

George, Angela 2023 The changing landscape of heritage language learners abroad: Current research and future directions

Keywords: heritage learners | study abroad | identity

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 8:2 pp. 177–196 | article

Storoshenko, Dennis R. & Mahyar Nakhaei 2023 The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian

Keywords: syntax | semantics | negation | negative polarity | negative concord

In: Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri & Jian Gang Ngui (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 361] pp. 282–306

Trofimovich, Pavel, Charles L. Nagle, Mary Grantham O’Brien, Sara Kennedy, Kym Taylor Reid & Lauren Strachan 2022 Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct*

Keywords: comprehensibility | pronunciation | dynamic | interaction | processing fluency | second language

In: The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing & Murray J. Munro (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 121] pp. 153–179

Dressler, Roswita, Katherine Crossman & Colleen Kawalilak 2022 Blogging for intercultural communicative competence in study abroad programs: All breadth, no depth?

Keywords: pre-service teachers | reflective writing | blogging | intercultural communicative competence

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 7:2 pp. 181–203 | article

Teló, Cesar, Pavel Trofimovich & Mary Grantham O’Brien 2022 Disentangling professional competence and foreign accent

Keywords: accentism | foreign accent | speech assessment | workplace | performance | prestige | second language | competence | treatment preference | comprehensibility

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:3 pp. 413–443 | article

Trofimovich, Pavel, Charles L. Nagle, Mary Grantham O’Brien, Sara Kennedy, Kym Taylor Reid & Lauren Strachan 2020 Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct

Keywords: comprehensibility | pronunciation | dynamic | interaction | processing fluency | second language

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 pp. 430–457 | article

Taylor Reid, Kym, Mary Grantham O’Brien, Pavel Trofimovich & Allison Bajt 2020 Testing the malleability of teachers’ judgments of second language speech

Keywords: German | social attitudes | speech rating | accent bias | linguistic stereotyping | second language | speech assessment | teacher status | accentedness | comprehensibility | fluency

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:2 pp. 236–264 | article

AbuAmsha, Duaa 2020 The future markers in Palestinian Arabic:: Internal or external motivation for language change?

Keywords: Palestinian Arabic | future time reference | language change and variation | internal factors | external factors | Gazan dialect | Jaffan dialect

In: Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July–4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 350] pp. 453–472

Abdollahnejad, Elias & Dennis Ryan Storoshenko 2020 Syntactic and semantic constraints on pronoun and anaphor resolution in Persian

Keywords: binding | pronouns | anaphors | logophoricity | multiple constraints framework

In: Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Larson, Richard K., Sedigheh Moradi & Vida Samiian (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 351] pp. 15–28

Athanasopoulou, Angeliki & Irene Vogel 2020 Variability in French word-final schwa: Effects of focus and speaker

Keywords: Parisian French | word-final schwa | prosodic boundary | focus | variability

In: Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Newark, Del., Vogel, Irene (ed.) [Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 16] p. 7

Carroll, Susanne E. 2019 Prosodic effects on L2 grammars: From competence constraints to a learning research agenda

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 pp. 827–832 | article commentary

Kosminsky, Doris, Jagoda Walny, Jo Vermeulen, Søren Knudsen, Wesley Willett & Sheelagh Carpendale 2020 Belief at first sight: Data visualization and the rationalization of seeing

Keywords: data visualization | representation | objectivity | historical context

Information Design Journal 25:1 pp. 43–55 | article | open access

Li, Xiaoting & Jie Luo 2019 Some interactional functions of Yinwei-clauses in Mandarin Chinese conversation

Keywords: yinwei | Mandarin | conversation analysis | interactional linguistics | accounts for prior actions | parentheticals | disagreement | assertion

In: Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives, Xiao, Yun & Linda Tsung (eds.) [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 10] p. 82

George, Angela & Anne Hoffman-González 2019 Dialect and identity: US heritage language learners of Spanish abroad

Keywords: heritage language learners | heritage speakers | identity | regional features | phonology | dialect

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 4:2 pp. 252–279 | article

George, Angela 2019 Study abroad homestay versus dormitory: Extralinguistic factors and regional features

Keywords: study abroad | regional features | sociolinguistic competence | living situation

Spanish in Context 16:1 p. 77 | article

Dressler, Roswita & Anja Dressler 2019 The methodological affordances and challenges of using Facebook to research study abroad

Keywords: Facebook | methodology | ethics

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 4:1 pp. 126–144 | article

O’Brien, Mary Grantham, Tracey M. Derwing, Catia Cucchiarini, Debra M. Hardison, Hansjörg Mixdorff, Ron I. Thomson, Helmer Strik, John M. Levis, Murray J. Munro, Jennifer A. Foote & Greta Muller Levis 2019 Directions for the future of technology in pronunciation research and teaching

Keywords: pronunciation | technology | data | computer-assisted pronunciation teaching | research | future directions | automatic speech recognition | intelligibility | comprehensibility

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 4:2 pp. 182–207 | article | open access

Ricento, Thomas 2018 The promise and pitfalls of global English

Keywords: global English | English as a Lingua Franca | neoliberalism | language and development

In: The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, Globalisation and Linguistic Governance, Kraus, Peter A. & François Grin (eds.) [Studies in World Language Problems, 6] pp. 201–222

Meisel, Jürgen M. 2018 On first language attrition in second language learners

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6 pp. 734–738 | article commentary

Waller, Robert & Stephanie VandenBerg 2018 A one-day transformation project for overdose emergency kits

Keywords: health information | design methods | user instructions | orphan design projects

Information Design Journal 23:3 pp. 319–333 | article

Thudt, Alice, Charles Perin, Wesley Willett & Sheelagh Carpendale 2017 Subjectivity in personal storytelling with visualization

Keywords: visualization | subjectivity | personal visualization | storytelling | personal narratives

Information Design Journal 23:1 pp. 48–64 | article | open access

Duris, Jessica, Tamara Kumpan, Brian Duffels, Heath E. Matheson, Penny M. Pexman & Paul D. Siakaluk 2018 Effects of emotion information on processing pain-related words in visual word recognition

Keywords: visual word recognition | grounded cognition | lexical-semantic representation | emotion knowledge | valence | arousal | emotional experience

The Mental Lexicon 12:3 pp. 283–308 | article

Abdollahnejad, Elias & Hamideh Marefat 2018 Relative clauses in Persian: A small-scale corpus study

Keywords: Persian RCs | resumptive pronouns | gaps | free RCs | object marker râ

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:2 pp. 135–149 | article

O’Brien, Mary Grantham 2017 Schmitt, 2016. Teaching English Pronunciation: A textbook for the German-speaking countries

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3:2 pp. 298–302 | book review

Kupisch, Tanja, Alyona Belikova, Öner Özçelik, Ilse Stangen & Lydia White 2016 Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers

Keywords: definiteness effect | heritage speakers | Turkish-German bilingualism

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:1 pp. 1–32 | Article

Carroll, Susanne Elizabeth & Joseph W. Windsor 2015 Segmental targets versus lexical interference: Production of second-language targets on first exposure and the result of minimal training

Keywords: first exposure learners | phonological features | rhotics | syllable positions | transfer

In: Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development, Peukert, Hagen (ed.) [Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 4] pp. 53–86

Gibson, Judy & Sylvie Roy 2015 Canadian Parents for French: How a grassroots organization has contributed to the advancement of Canada’s official languages policy

Keywords: official languages | Canadian Parents for French | historical institutionalism theory | grassroots organization | parental involvement | Canadian language policy

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 3:2 pp. 218–240 | article

Han, Chung-hye, Dennis Ryan Storoshenko, Betty Hei Man Leung & Kyeong-min Kim 2016 The time course of long-distance anaphor processing in Korean

Keywords: Visual-world eye-tracking | Long-distance anaphor | anaphor processing | reference resolution | Korean

Korean Linguistics 17:1 pp. 1–32 | article

Ritter, Elizabeth 2014 Nominalizing Inner Aspect: Evidence from Blackfoot

In: Cross-linguistic Investigations of Nominalization Patterns, Paul, Ileana (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 210] pp. 25–50

Libben, Gary & Silke Weber 2014 Semantic transparency, compounding, and the nature of independent variables

In: Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012, Rainer, Franz, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky & Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 327] pp. 205–222

Flynn, Darin & Sean Fulop 2014 Acoustic phonetic features in Athabaskan sound change

Keywords: Evolutionary Phonology | Athabaskan | sound change | phonetic features

Diachronica 31:2 pp. 192–222 | article

Jong, Marnie Rogers-de & Tom Strong 2014 Co-constructing “We” and “Us”: Joint talk and storytelling with cohabitating couples

Keywords: we-ness | couples therapy | identity | relationships

Narrative Inquiry 24:2 pp. 368–385 | article

Windsor, Joseph W. 2013 Review of The structure of Modern Irish: A functional account by Brian Nolan (2012)

Studies in Language 37:4 pp. 892–900 | book review

Sedivy, Julie 2013  Whose ease of processing?

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3 pp. 341–344 | article commentary

O’Brien, Mary Grantham, Carrie N. Jackson & Alison Eisel Hendricks 2013  Making use of cues to sentence length in L1 and L2 German*

Keywords: perception | acoustic cues | second language | immersion | proficiency | sentence length | prosody

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:4 pp. 448–477 | article

Naqvi, Rahat, Anne McKeough, Keoma J. Thorne & Christina M. Pfitscher 2013 Fostering early literacy learning using dual language books: Language as a cultural amplifier

Keywords: cultural and linguistic diversity | culturally responsive practices | dual language books | emergent literacy | metalinguistic awareness

In: Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education, Siemund, Peter, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz & Julia Davydova (eds.) [Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 1] pp. 327–348

de Cuba, Carlos & Jonathan E. MacDonald 2013 Referentiality in Spanish CPs

In: Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González & Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 197] pp. 117–140

Carroll, Susanne Elizabeth 2012 First exposure learners make use of top-down lexical knowledge when learning words

In: Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt & Christoph Gabriel (eds.) [Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 13] pp. 23–46

Strong, Tom & Sarah Knight 2013 Agency and dialogic tension in co-editing more preferred narratives

Keywords: problem saturated stories | intimacy after abuse | co-editing small stories | sexual abuse

Narrative Inquiry 22:1 pp. 181–185 | article

Libben, Gary, Silke Weber & Koji Miwa 2012 P3: A technique for the study of perception, production, and participant properties

Keywords: progressive demasking | typing | writing | P3 | dictation | semantic transparency | handwriting | compound words

The Mental Lexicon 7:2 pp. 237–248 | article

Cai, Wei & Benny P.H. Lee 2010 Investigating the effect of contextual clues on the processing of unfamiliar words in second language listening comprehension

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 33:2 pp. 18.1–18.28 | article | open access

Burnett, Ashley L. 2009 Middle English vowel length in French loanwords

In: Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis & Etleva Vocaj (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 308] p. 9

Mladenova, Olga M. 2009 On morphosyntactic change in Bulgarian: Case and definiteness

Keywords: definiteness | case | word order | figure-ground organization | aspect | markedness | frequency | Bulgarian

Diachronica 26:3 pp. 408–436 | article

Meisel, Jürgen M. 2008 Child second language acquisition or successive first language acquisition?

In: Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma & Elena Gavruseva (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 46] pp. 55–80

Kupisch, Tanja & Christian Koops 2008 The definite article in non-specific object noun phrases: Comparing French and Italian

In: Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss & Werner Abraham (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 89] pp. 189–213

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

McKeough, Anne, Lynn Davis, Nicole Forgeron, Anthony Marini & Tak Fung 2005 Improving story complexity and cohesion: A developmental approach to teaching story composition

Narrative Inquiry 15:2 pp. 241–266 | article

Pounder, Amanda V. 2008 Haplology in English adverb-formation

In: New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission, Kay, Christian, Carole Hough & Irené Wotherspoon (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] pp. 193–211

Harley, Heidi & Elizabeth Ritter 2008 Structuring the bundle: A universal morphosyntactic feature geometry

In: Pronouns – Grammar and Representation, Simon, Horst J. & Heike Wiese (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 52] pp. 23–39

Ramraj, Victor J. 2003 Short Fiction

In: A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions, Arnold, A. James (ed.) [Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XV] pp. 199–223

Pounder, Amanda V. 2002 Adverb-marking in German and English: System and standardization

Diachronica 18:2 pp. 301–358 | article

McGinnis, Martha 2003 Variation in the phase structure of applicatives

Keywords: transitivity | variation | phonological phrasing | syntax | locality | Minimal Link Condition | applicative | phase theory | A-movement

Linguistic Variation Yearbook 1:1 pp. 105–146 | article

Kelley, David H. 2000 Linda Richmond Schele

Written Language & Literacy 3:1 pp. 193–195 | other

Murray, Robert W. & Naomi Cull 1994 Proto-Romance and the Origin of the Romance Languages

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 18:2 pp. 371–376 | article

Murray, Robert W. 1991 Early Germanic Syllable Structure Revisited

Diachronica 8:2 pp. 201–238 | article

Walker, Douglas C. 1990 Review of Histoire de la langue française by Jacqueline Picoche & Christiane Marchello-Nizia (1989)

Diachronica 7:1 pp. 129–132 | book review

Cook, Eung-Do 1988 Hardening in Korean

Korean Linguistics 5:1 pp. 31–43 | article

Murray, Robert W. 1988 The Shortening of Stressed Long Vowels in old English

Diachronica 5:1/2 p. 73 | article

Izzo, Herbert J. 1982 Phonetics in 16th-Century Italy: Giorgio Bartoli and John David Rhys

Historiographia Linguistica 9:3 pp. 335–359 | article

O’Grady, William 1980 Foundations of a Theory of Case

Studies in Language 4:2 pp. 229–248 | article

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