Alison Wray
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Alison Wray's Degrees
- Bachelors Linguistics University of York
- PhD Linguistics University of York
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alison Wray FAcSS FLSW is a Research Professor in Language and Communication at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. She is known for her work on formulaic language. Career Wray has been teaching at Cardiff University since 1999. She has also taught at Swansea University, York St John University, University College of Ripon and York St John. Her BA and D.Phil. degrees are from the University of York.
Alison Wray's Published Works
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Published Works
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon (2002) (1484)
- The Singing Neanderthals: the Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body, by Steven Mithen. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005. ISBN 0-297-64317-7 hardback £20 & US$25.2; ix+374 pp. (2006) (756)
- The functions of formulaic language: an integrated model (2000) (617)
- Formulaic sequences in second language teaching: principle and practice (2000) (533)
- Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries (2008) (347)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: List of Figures and Tables (2002) (324)
- The consequences of talking to strangers: Evolutionary corollaries of socio-cultural influences on linguistic form (2007) (274)
- The transition to language (2002) (252)
- Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction (1998) (245)
- Formulaic language in learners and native speakers (1999) (190)
- WHORF'S CHILDREN: CRITICAL COMMENTS ON CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (CDA) (1997) (188)
- Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language (1998) (166)
- Formulaic Sequences (159)
- Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates (2006) (141)
- What Do We (Think We) Know About Formulaic Language? An Evaluation of the Current State of Play (2012) (132)
- Holistic utterances in protolanguage: the link from primates to humans (2000) (110)
- Why can't you just leave it alone? Deviations from memorized language as a gauge of nativelike competence. (2008) (103)
- Formulaic language (2013) (59)
- 'Here's one I prepared earlier': formulaic language learning on television (2004) (50)
- Formulaic Language in Computer-supported Communication: Theory Meets Reality (2002) (49)
- Use of formulaic language by a Japanese-English bilingual child: a practical approach to data analysis (2003) (47)
- Establishing the Reliability of Word Association Data for Investigating Individual and Group Differences. (2015) (45)
- Dual processing in protolanguage: performance without competence (2002) (43)
- Critical reading and writing for postgraduates. 2nd ed. (2011) (42)
- Identifying formulaic language: persistent challenges and new opportunities (2009) (37)
- The Focusing Hypothesis: The theory of left hemisphere lateralised language re-examined (1992) (34)
- A formulaic approach to translation at the post office: reading the signs (2004) (34)
- Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies (2012) (33)
- Projects In Linguistics (1998) (32)
- Breaking Up Is Not So Hard To Do: Individual Differences in L2 Memorization (2006) (32)
- ‘Needs only’ Analysis in Linguistic Ontogeny and Phylogeny (2007) (30)
- Why are we so sure we know what a word is (2015) (27)
- Identifying formulaic language (2009) (26)
- Research Timeline: Formulaic language. (2013) (21)
- ‘We’ve had a wonderful, wonderful thing’: Formulaic interaction when an expert has dementia (2010) (21)
- Proverbs and formulaic sequences in the language of elderly people with dementia (2011) (21)
- The Fall and Rise of Linguists in Education Policy-Making: From “Common Sense” to Common Ground (2002) (21)
- Future directions in formulaic language research (2009) (21)
- The Phraseological View of Language: A tribute to John Sinclair (2011) (19)
- Pushing learners to the extreme: the artificial use of prefabricated material in conversation (2010) (19)
- Formulaic Language as a Barrier to Effective Communication with People with Alzheimer's Disease (2011) (17)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: The Function of Formulaic Sequences: A Model (2002) (16)
- Formulaic Sequences as a Regulatory Mechanism for Cognitive Perturbations During the Achievement of Social Goals (2017) (16)
- Projects in linguistics and language studies : a practical guide to researching language (2012) (16)
- The effect of memorized learning on the writing scores of Chinese IELTS test takers (2009) (15)
- Apes, language and the human mind (2000) (15)
- Phenotypic spectrum and transcriptomic profile associated with germline variants in TRAF7 (2020) (15)
- Idiomaticity in an L2: linguistic processing as a predictor of success (2006) (14)
- Communication Empowerment Framework: An integrative framework to support effective communication and interaction between carers and people living with dementia (2018) (14)
- Formulaic Sequences and Language Disorder (2009) (13)
- The Dynamics of Dementia Communication (2020) (13)
- Singing in Welsh, Becoming Welsh: 'Turfing' a 'Grass Roots' Identity (2003) (12)
- Choosing the best tools for comparative analyses of texts (2010) (12)
- The puzzle of language learning: From child's play to ‘linguaphobia’ (2008) (12)
- What Formulaic Sequences Are (2002) (12)
- The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language (2017) (10)
- Evolving models of language: papers from the annual meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at the University of Wales, Swansea, September 1996 (1997) (9)
- ‘Here’s one I prepared earlier’ (2004) (9)
- Accelerating the development of Expertise: A Step-Change in Social Science Research Capacity Building (2011) (9)
- Mechanisms of conflict and aggression in the dementia context (2016) (8)
- How native and non-native speakers of English interpret unfamiliar formulaic sequences (2016) (7)
- Critical reading and writing for postgraduates (3rd edition) (2016) (7)
- Projects in linguistics: a practical guide, 2nd ed. (2006) (7)
- Formulaic language and threat: the challenge of empathy and compassion in Alzheimer's disease interaction (2014) (7)
- Patterns of formulaic language in Alzheimer's disease: implications for quality of life (2012) (7)
- Concluding question (2018) (6)
- Welsh for adults teaching and learning approaches, methodologies and resources: a comprehensive research study and critical review of the way forward (2012) (6)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Index (2002) (6)
- The origins of meaning: Language in the light of evolution (2009) (5)
- The focusing hypothesis (1992) (5)
- Set phrases in second language acquisition (2007) (4)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: The Whole and the Parts (2002) (4)
- The explanatory advantages of the holistic protolanguage model: The case of linguistic irregularity (2005) (4)
- The Social Construction of Dementia (2020) (3)
- Mislaying compassion: linguistic triggers for inadequate care-giving in Alzheimer's Disease care (2013) (3)
- Accommodating 'unaccustomed pragmatic spaces' in Arbib's model Comment on "Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain" by Michael A. Arbib. (2016) (3)
- Conclusion: Navigating L2 collocation research (2009) (3)
- Developing research expertise in applied linguistics: capacity-building for today’s interdisciplinary challenges (2015) (3)
- The occurrence of 'occurance' and 'alot' of other things 'aswell': patterns of errors in undergraduate English (1996) (3)
- Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy: the challenge of hybridity (2014) (2)
- 3.1 Introduction (1992) (2)
- Dementia and Language (2014) (2)
- English Choral Practice 1400–1650: The sound of Latin in England before and after the Reformation (1995) (2)
- Singers on the trail of ‘authentic’ Early Modern English: the puzzling case of /æ:/ and /ε:/ (1999) (2)
- Joining the dots: the evolutionary picture of language and music (2006) (2)
- Leaving No Stone Unturned: Flexible Retrieval of Idiomatic Expressions from a Large Text Corpus (2021) (2)
- Preface: A research network model (2009) (1)
- Conceptualizing Communication (2020) (1)
- Formulaic language: pushing the boundaries / Alison Wray (2010) (1)
- Notes to Chapter Four (1992) (1)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: References (2002) (1)
- 4.1 Introduction (1992) (1)
- The values and shortcomings of phonetic script as a tool for singers (1989) (1)
- Dementia: the "communication disease" (2018) (1)
- Understanding the challenges of dementia communication (2017) (1)
- Looking at the WHY in phraseology: a psycholinguistic perspective on patterns in text (2005) (1)
- Genes and the conceptualisation of language knowledge (2008) (1)
- Multilingual dementia care: defining the limits of translanguaging (2019) (1)
- One word or two? Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case (2005) (1)
- Projects in linguistics and language studies (3rd edition) (2012) (1)
- Scholarly reading as a model for scholarly writing (2011) (1)
- The dual systems ('focusing') hypothesis: a right hemisphere account for left hemisphere language (1990) (1)
- Multiword Sequences as Building Blocks for Language: Insights into First and Second Language Learning (2013) (1)
- Using computers to study texts (2013) (1)
- Formulaic language: Pushing the boundaries (China edition) (2013) (0)
- Chapter Six: Neurophysiological Investigations (1992) (0)
- 6.4 Prediction (1992) (0)
- Note to Chapter Six (1992) (0)
- 4.8 Prediction (1992) (0)
- Approaches to Effective Communication in Care (2020) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Patterns of Formulaicity in Adults and Teenagers Using a Second Language (2002) (0)
- Perspectives on Formulaic Language: Acquisition and Communication – Edited by David Wood (2011) (0)
- Games for studying language origins and change (2011) (0)
- 4.6 Lateral Eye Movement (1992) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Detecting Formulaicity (2002) (0)
- English pronunciation c. 1500-1700 (1996) (0)
- Drivers of Disrupted Communication (2020) (0)
- The Challenges of Communication in the Dementia Context (2020) (0)
- 5.8 Prediction (1992) (0)
- 5.1 Introduction (1992) (0)
- Notes to Chapter Three (2020) (0)
- Phonetic transcription for singers (1988) (0)
- Specialist pronunciation for singers (1997) (0)
- Different in Degree or Kind? (2020) (0)
- Chapter Eight: Evaluating the Hypothesis (1992) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Patterns of Formulaicity in Aphasic Language (2002) (0)
- Loneliness and Dementia (2022) (0)
- The Role of Memory in Communication (2020) (0)
- 4.3 Problems with the Dichotic Listening Test (1992) (0)
- Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- Reconstructed pronunciation [in press] (2016) (0)
- The Experience of Dementia Communication (2020) (0)
- Transcribing speech orthographically .............................. How to organize the presentation (2013) (0)
- © Copyright 1997 British Association for Applied Linguistics (2008) (0)
- 3.7 Summary (1992) (0)
- 4.7 Comments (1992) (0)
- Authentic pronunciation for early music (1992) (0)
- Using word association data to investigate lexical retrieval behaviour (2011) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Patterns of Formulaicity in Children Using a Second Language (2002) (0)
- English Choral Practice 1400–1650: English pronunciation, c. 1500 – c. 1625 (1996) (0)
- 5.4 Inconsistencies in the Clinical Data (1992) (0)
- 2.1 Introduction (1992) (0)
- 5.6 Prediction (1992) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Non-native Language: Overview (2002) (0)
- An Agenda for Improving Communication in the Dementia Context (2020) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Pinning Down Formulaicity (2002) (0)
- The Singers' Language Project (1990) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: The Heteromorphic Distributed Lexicon (2002) (0)
- 4.10 The Value of Psycholinguistic Date in Evaluating the Focusing Hypothesis (1992) (0)
- Patterns of Formulaicity in Normal Adult Language (2002) (0)
- Linguistic markers and risk of Alzheimer's Disease (2016) (0)
- Notes to Chapter Seven (1992) (0)
- Note to Chapter Eight (1992) (0)
- Angelo Cangelosi & Domenico Parisi (eds.) , Simulating the evolution of language . London: Springer-Verlag, 2002. Pp. xii+355. (2003) (0)
- Communication Processes (2020) (0)
- Chapter Five: Clinical Investigations (1992) (0)
- 1.7 Formulae in Language Processing (1992) (0)
- Focusing : a dual systems account for the apparent hemispheric lateralisation of language (1987) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Formulaic Sequences in Aphasia: A Model (2002) (0)
- The Biological Determinants of Dementia Communication (2020) (0)
- 1.5 A Brief Justification for Holistic Language Processing (1992) (0)
- 6.1 Introduction (1992) (0)
- Pronunciation of the texts (2000) (0)
- Digital file servers: an open approach (1996) (0)
- 5.2 Left Hemisphere Lesion (1992) (0)
- Notes to Chapter Five (1992) (0)
- Games for exploring language origins and change (2011) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Preface and Acknowledgements (2002) (0)
- 6.2 Anatomy (1992) (0)
- Notes on terminology (1992) (0)
- Patterns of Formulaicity in Aphasic Language (2002) (0)
- Complexity theory and emergent change. Case study (2009) (0)
- 5.5 Prediction (1992) (0)
- History of English ........................... Textbooks, reference sources, and (2013) (0)
- Notes to Chapter One (1992) (0)
- Critical Reading for Self-Critical Writing: introduction to a structured approach to for reviewing literature (2008) (0)
- Notes to Chapter Two (1992) (0)
- 3.2 Dual Systems (1992) (0)
- Formulaic Language and the Lexicon: Formulaic Sequences in the Second Language Acquisition Process: A Model (2002) (0)
- Formulaic Sequences in the Second Language Acquisition Process: A Model (2002) (0)
- 1.4 Proposition-Focused Language (PFL) and Language-Focused Language (LFL) (1992) (0)
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