Tove Larsson
@tovelarsson.bsky.social
Corpus linguist, CL methodologist, and rock climber. Strong believer in the importance of healthy work-life balance. Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University.
New article out:
Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).
Available open access for 50 days:
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Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).
Available open access for 50 days:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sampling through the lens of QRPs
From an ethical standpoint, it is important that we ensure that our sampling procedures allow us to make generalizations about the populations we wish…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New article out:
Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).
Available open access for 50 days:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).
Available open access for 50 days:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hot off the press: Kim et al. (2026) in System on the effects of self-initiated L2 reading on phraseology. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From the grant-funded ComplEExity Project (Kaatari, Larsson, Wang, Sundqvist, & Kim).
From the grant-funded ComplEExity Project (Kaatari, Larsson, Wang, Sundqvist, & Kim).
The effects of extramural English reading on phraseology in L2 writing: A key phrase frames approach
Foreign/second language (L2) learners worldwide are increasingly exposed to English outside the classroom through self-initiated, extramural English (…
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October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hot off the press: Kim et al. (2026) in System on the effects of self-initiated L2 reading on phraseology. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From the grant-funded ComplEExity Project (Kaatari, Larsson, Wang, Sundqvist, & Kim).
From the grant-funded ComplEExity Project (Kaatari, Larsson, Wang, Sundqvist, & Kim).
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is hiring for a tenure track assistant professor with expertise in second language corpus linguistics. Check out the position and apply on UH’s website:
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September 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is hiring for a tenure track assistant professor with expertise in second language corpus linguistics. Check out the position and apply on UH’s website:
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Interested in doing an MA in Applied Linguistics/Teaching of English as a Second Language?
Please join our information session!
When? Friday October 17, at 2:30-3:30pm (US Mountain Standard Time)
Please RSVP by October 1 to get the Zoom link: forms.gle/oQS2cMWpcAui...
Please join our information session!
When? Friday October 17, at 2:30-3:30pm (US Mountain Standard Time)
Please RSVP by October 1 to get the Zoom link: forms.gle/oQS2cMWpcAui...
September 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Interested in doing an MA in Applied Linguistics/Teaching of English as a Second Language?
Please join our information session!
When? Friday October 17, at 2:30-3:30pm (US Mountain Standard Time)
Please RSVP by October 1 to get the Zoom link: forms.gle/oQS2cMWpcAui...
Please join our information session!
When? Friday October 17, at 2:30-3:30pm (US Mountain Standard Time)
Please RSVP by October 1 to get the Zoom link: forms.gle/oQS2cMWpcAui...
Larsson, Kim, & Egbert (2025): We compare two new methods of extracting key lexical bundles (n-grams) + provide the Python script, in case anyone would like to use the methods in their work.
The article is available OA for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVd99sT3h...
@jesse-egbert.bsky.social
The article is available OA for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVd99sT3h...
@jesse-egbert.bsky.social
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July 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Larsson, Kim, & Egbert (2025): We compare two new methods of extracting key lexical bundles (n-grams) + provide the Python script, in case anyone would like to use the methods in their work.
The article is available OA for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVd99sT3h...
@jesse-egbert.bsky.social
The article is available OA for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVd99sT3h...
@jesse-egbert.bsky.social
Reposted by Tove Larsson
Happy to see our chapter (with @perez-paredes.bsky.social) on "Corpus Linguistics in Languages for Specifc Purposes" out in "Specialized Communication: An International Handbook", edited by Thorsten Roelcke, Ruth Breeze, and Jan Engberg! @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...
June 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Happy to see our chapter (with @perez-paredes.bsky.social) on "Corpus Linguistics in Languages for Specifc Purposes" out in "Specialized Communication: An International Handbook", edited by Thorsten Roelcke, Ruth Breeze, and Jan Engberg! @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Just out: Accounting for the entire system of grammatical complexity: Evidence for general oral vs. literal grammatical complexity dimensions (Biber & Larsson). www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Accounting for the entire system of complexity features: evidence for general oral versus literate grammatical complexity dimensions
Two recent studies (Biber, Douglas, Larsson Tove & Gregory R. Hancock. 2024a. The linguistic organization of grammatical text complexity: Comparing the empirical adequacy of theory-based models. C...
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June 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Just out: Accounting for the entire system of grammatical complexity: Evidence for general oral vs. literal grammatical complexity dimensions (Biber & Larsson). www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken American English (LANA-CASE) is featured in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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April 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The Lancaster-Northern Arizona Corpus of Spoken American English (LANA-CASE) is featured in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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AAAL2025 has started! We had a presentation from the ComplEExity Project this morning and Terry nailed it! Such a blessing to team up with these fabulous corpus linguists! @tovelarsson.bsky.social Henrik Kastari, Ying Wang. #extramuralenglish meets #corpuslinguistics
March 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
AAAL2025 has started! We had a presentation from the ComplEExity Project this morning and Terry nailed it! Such a blessing to team up with these fabulous corpus linguists! @tovelarsson.bsky.social Henrik Kastari, Ying Wang. #extramuralenglish meets #corpuslinguistics
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I'm thrilled to have passed my dissertation defense and to have accepted a job as an assistant professor at USF 🎉 Thanks to everyone for the support, especially my committee: @jesse-egbert.bsky.social (co-chair), @tovelarsson.bsky.social (co-chair), Doug Biber, @tonymcenery.bsky.social, Randi Reppen
March 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm thrilled to have passed my dissertation defense and to have accepted a job as an assistant professor at USF 🎉 Thanks to everyone for the support, especially my committee: @jesse-egbert.bsky.social (co-chair), @tovelarsson.bsky.social (co-chair), Doug Biber, @tonymcenery.bsky.social, Randi Reppen
Most of our commonly used statistical techniques in CL only help us identify differences between groups. But what if we instead want to empirically test whether two groups are similar/practically equivalent?
Just out:
Larsson & Hancock (forthcoming)
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Just out:
Larsson & Hancock (forthcoming)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) What if we want to test for similarities between groups, rather than differences? Equivalence testing techniques for corpus linguistics
PDF | Tests in the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) framework are designed to identify differences between groups. Thus, researchers wishing... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Most of our commonly used statistical techniques in CL only help us identify differences between groups. But what if we instead want to empirically test whether two groups are similar/practically equivalent?
Just out:
Larsson & Hancock (forthcoming)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Just out:
Larsson & Hancock (forthcoming)
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
📣Call for papers📣
SLRF is back! Come join us in Flagstaff, AZ, in September.
SLRF is back! Come join us in Flagstaff, AZ, in September.
January 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
📣Call for papers📣
SLRF is back! Come join us in Flagstaff, AZ, in September.
SLRF is back! Come join us in Flagstaff, AZ, in September.
Deadline extended until Jan 31!
📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:
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Call for papers
To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...
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January 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Deadline extended until Jan 31!
Reposted by Tove Larsson
Call for papers - Corpus Linguistics 2025! Closing date for proposals 17th January 2025. More information here: www.cl2025.co.uk
CL2025
Welcome to the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025), co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham.
CL2025 will take place fr...
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January 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Call for papers - Corpus Linguistics 2025! Closing date for proposals 17th January 2025. More information here: www.cl2025.co.uk
Reposted by Tove Larsson
Corpora's 7th most downloaded article is "Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: a corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing" by Henrik Kaatari, Ying Wang and @tovelarsson.bsky.social (open access) www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: a corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing | Corpora
This paper introduces the Swedish Learner English Corpus (slec), which consists of argumentative texts in English that are written by Swedish junior and senior high school students. slec includes rich...
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December 6, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Corpora's 7th most downloaded article is "Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: a corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing" by Henrik Kaatari, Ying Wang and @tovelarsson.bsky.social (open access) www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
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I am excited to share my new paper with @marine_matte about AI's ability to simulate student writing. Open access link for the next 50 days.
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December 1, 2024 at 1:32 PM
I am excited to share my new paper with @marine_matte about AI's ability to simulate student writing. Open access link for the next 50 days.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBXz3n6UY...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBXz3n6UY...
This was a really interested paper to work on. And we’re really happy that it has led to more discussion about how important it is that we approach our data as linguists (i.e. that we’re safeguarding a focus on language, even in highly quantitative analyses where we use advanced stats).
The 9th most downloaded Corpora article is "On the status of statistical reporting versus linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective" by @tovelarsson.bsky.social, @jesse-egbert.bsky.social and Doug Biber. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
On the status of statistical reporting <i>versus</i> linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective | Corpora
This study investigates (i) whether there has been a shift towards increased statistical focus in corpus linguistic research articles, and, if so, (ii) whether this has had any repercussions for the a...
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November 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM
This was a really interested paper to work on. And we’re really happy that it has led to more discussion about how important it is that we approach our data as linguists (i.e. that we’re safeguarding a focus on language, even in highly quantitative analyses where we use advanced stats).
Reposted by Tove Larsson
The 9th most downloaded Corpora article is "On the status of statistical reporting versus linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective" by @tovelarsson.bsky.social, @jesse-egbert.bsky.social and Doug Biber. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
On the status of statistical reporting <i>versus</i> linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective | Corpora
This study investigates (i) whether there has been a shift towards increased statistical focus in corpus linguistic research articles, and, if so, (ii) whether this has had any repercussions for the a...
www.euppublishing.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:16 AM
The 9th most downloaded Corpora article is "On the status of statistical reporting versus linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective" by @tovelarsson.bsky.social, @jesse-egbert.bsky.social and Doug Biber. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Linguistics with a Corpus (@lingwithcorpus.bsky.social) is now on Bluesky!
New blog post on why we should all care (more) about Zipf’s Law in corpus linguistics by @jesse-egbert.bsky.social 👇🏻
New blog post on why we should all care (more) about Zipf’s Law in corpus linguistics by @jesse-egbert.bsky.social 👇🏻
Check out our latest blog post by @jesse-egbert.bsky.social titled "(Zipf's) Law and (Rank) Order".
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November 27, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Linguistics with a Corpus (@lingwithcorpus.bsky.social) is now on Bluesky!
New blog post on why we should all care (more) about Zipf’s Law in corpus linguistics by @jesse-egbert.bsky.social 👇🏻
New blog post on why we should all care (more) about Zipf’s Law in corpus linguistics by @jesse-egbert.bsky.social 👇🏻
📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:
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Call for papers
To mark the end of a Hoover Seedfund collaborative project between the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Department of English at Northern Arizona ...
uclouvain.be
November 27, 2024 at 4:05 PM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS📣 Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, 7-8 July 2025:
uclouvain.be/en/research-...
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Both secondary research (e.g. metaanalyses) and replication studies are focused on the goal of establishing what we know. But what about new primary studies? Is it possible to also base those on a foundation of cumulative knowledge?
Larsson & Biber (in press):
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Larsson & Biber (in press):
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Encouraging cumulative knowledge building as normal practice in (learner) corpus research
PDF | It is not always clear how a cumulative knowledge mindset can permeate the normal primary research studies that we do. That is, both secondary... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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November 21, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Both secondary research (e.g. metaanalyses) and replication studies are focused on the goal of establishing what we know. But what about new primary studies? Is it possible to also base those on a foundation of cumulative knowledge?
Larsson & Biber (in press):
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Larsson & Biber (in press):
www.researchgate.net/publication/...