Nick C. Ellis

TL;DR: For instance, the authors shows how language processing is intimately tuned to input frequency and the implications of these effects for the representations and developmental sequence of SLA, and concludes by considering the history of frequency as an explanatory concept in theoretical and applied linguistics, its 40 years of exile, and its necessary reinstatement as a bridging variable that binds the different schools of language acquisition research.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed various psychological and neurobiological processes by which explicit knowledge of form-meaning associations impacts upon implicit language learning and found that implicit and explicit knowledge are dissociable but cooperative.

TL;DR: The Language as a Complex Adaptive System (LAS) approach as discussed by the authors is a model for language acquisition that is based on a complex adaptive system consisting of multiple agents (the speakers in the speech community) interacting with one another.

TL;DR: The field of second language acquisition (SLA) seeks to understand the processes by which school-aged children, adolescents, and adults learn and use, at any point in life, an additional language, including second, foreign, as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that SLA of lexis, idiom, collocation, and grammar are all determined by individual differences in learners' ability to remember simple verbal strings in order.