Measured Language: Quantitative Studies of Acquisition, Assessment, and Variation

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■ Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii ■ Jeff Connor-Linton and Luke Wander Amoroso, Georgetown University 1. The Ubiquitous Oral versus Literate Dimension: A Survey of Multidimensional Studies 1 ■ Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University 2. When Ethnicity Isn’t Just about Ethnicity 21 ■ Penelope Eckert, Stanford University 3. Does Language Zipf Right Along? Investigating Robustness in the Latent Structures of Usage and Acquisition 33 ■ Nick C. Ellis, University of Michigan; Matthew Brook O’Donnell, University of Michigan; Ute Römer, Georgia State University 4. Subjectivity and Efficiency in Language Assessment: Explorations of a Compensatory Rating Approach 51 ■ Steven J. Ross, University of Maryland 5. Subgrouping in Nusa Tenggara: The Case of Bima-Sumba 63 ■ Emily Gasser, Yale University 6. Young Learners’ Storytelling in Their First and Foreign Languages 79 ■ Yuko Goto Butler and Wei Zeng, University of Pennsylvania 7. Measuring Quechua to Spanish Cross-Linguistic Influence 95 ■ Marilyn S. Manley, Rowan University 8. Speedup versus Automatization: What Role Does Learner Proficiency Play? 111 ■ Jessica G. Cox and Anne M. Calderón, Georgetown University 9. Frequency Effects, Learning Conditions, and the Development of Implicit and Explicit Lexical Knowledge 125 ■ Phillip Hamrick, Georgetown University; Patrick Rebuschat, Lancaster University vi Contents 10. The Differential Role of Language Analytic Ability in Two Distinct Learning Conditions 141 ■ Nadia Mifka Profozic, University of Zadar, Croatia 11. U-Shaped Development: Definition, Exploration, and Falsifiable Hypotheses 155 ■ Hiroyuki Oshita, Ohio University 12. Using Simulated Speech to Assess Japanese Learner Oral Proficiency 171 ■ Hitokazu Matsushita and Deryle Lonsdale, Brigham Young University 13. Keys to College: Tracking English Language Proficiency and IELTS Test Scores in an International Undergraduate Conditional Admission Program in the United States 183 ■ Reese M. Heitner, Barbara J. Hoekje, and Patrick L. Braciszewski, Drexel University 14. How Does Foreign Language Proficiency Change over Time? Results of Data Mining Official Test Records 199 ■ Amber Bloomfield, Steven Ross, Megan Masters, Kassandra Gynther, and Stephen O’Connell, University of Maryland 15. The Development of Complexity in a Learner Corpus of German 213 ■ Colleen Neary-Sundquist, Purdue University Index 229 ...