Chris Westbury

List of John Benjamins publications for which Chris Westbury plays a role.

Journal

Titles

Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research

Edited by Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury

[Benjamins Current Topics, 47] 2012. x, 465 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Lexicography | Psycholinguistics

Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part II)

Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben and Chris Westbury

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 6:1 (2011) v, 196 pp.
Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics

Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I)

Edited by Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben and Chris Westbury

Special issue of The Mental Lexicon 5:3 (2010) v, 188 pp.
Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics

Articles

Previous evidence has implicated personal relevance as a predictive factor in lexical access. Westbury (2014) showed that personally relevant words were rated as having a higher subjective familiarity than words that were not personally relevant, suggesting that personally relevant words are… read more
Westbury, Chris 2016 Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain: Explaining semantics without semanticsNew Questions for the Next Decade, Jarema, Gonia, Gary Libben and Victor Kuperman (eds.), pp. 350–374 | Article
There is a distinction in scientific explanation between the explanandum, statements describing the empirical phenomenon to be explained, and the explanans, statements describing the evidence that allow one to predict that phenomenon. To avoid tautology, these sets of statements must refer to… read more
Shaoul, Cyrus, Harald Baayen and Chris Westbury 2014 N-gram probability effects in a cloze taskBridging the Methodological Divide: Linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to formulaic language, Wulff, Stefanie and Debra Titone (eds.), pp. 437–472 | Article
What knowledge influences our choice of words when we write or speak? Predicting which word a person will produce next is not easy, even when the linguistic context is known. One task that has been used to assess context dependent word choice is the fill-in-the-blank task, also called the cloze… read more
Libben, Gary, Chris Westbury and Gonia Jarema 2012 The challenge of embracing complexityMethodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research, Libben, Gary, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
Shaoul, Cyrus and Chris Westbury 2012 Formulaic sequences: Do they exist and do they matter?Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research, Libben, Gary, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 369–393 | Article
There is a new and growing interest in psycholinguistics in the mental representation of (not necessarily phrasal) multi-word sequences and in how knowledge of these sequences relates to word, phrase, and sentence knowledge. In this paper we summarize the evidence for the existence of distinct… read more
Westbury, Chris 2012 Assessing language impairment in aphasia: Going beyond pencils and paper in the computer ageMethodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research, Libben, Gary, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 33–55 | Article
Language is complicated and so, therefore, is language assessment. One complication is that there are many reasons to undertake language assessments, each of which may have different methods and goals. In this article I focus on the specific difficulties faced in aphasia assessment, the assessment… read more
Shaoul, Cyrus and Chris Westbury 2011 Formulaic sequences: Do they exist and do they matter?Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part II), Jarema, Gonia, Gary Libben and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Article
There is a new and growing interest in psycholinguistics in the mental representation of (not necessarily phrasal) multi-word sequences and in how knowledge of these sequences relates to word, phrase, and sentence knowledge. In this paper we summarize the evidence for the existence of distinct… read more
Westbury, Chris 2010 Assessing language impairment in aphasia: Going beyond pencils and paper in the computer ageMethodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I), Jarema, Gonia, Gary Libben and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 300–323 | Article
Language is complicated and so, therefore, is language assessment. One complication is that there are many reasons to undertake language assessments, each of which may have different methods and goals. In this article I focus on the specific difficulties faced in aphasia assessment, the assessment… read more
Although many studies have demonstrated the effects of imageability and phonological neighborhood size, few have examined if these factors interact. Strain, Patterson, and Seidenberg (1995) explained an imageability effect in naming low-frequency exception words (only) as being due to a slowing of… read more
Westbury, Chris, Geoff Hollis and Cyrus Shaoul 2007 LINGUA: The Language-Independent Neighbourhood Generator of the University of AlbertaThe Mental Lexicon 2:2, pp. 271–284 | Article
LINGUA (Language-Independent Neighbourhood Generator of the University of Alberta) is a free, platform-independent (Java) program consisting of a set of tools that have been developed for three purposes: to turn corpora into frequency dictionaries; to calculate orthographic neighbourhood and N-gram… read more