Nick Ellis

Nick C. Ellis is a Welsh psycholinguist, professor emeritus of psychology and linguistics, and research scientist at the University of Michigan. Widely cited in the field of applied linguistics, particularly second-language acquisition, his research focuses on statistical learning of language structures, documenting influences of word and pattern frequency on language learning and processing. His work aligns with usage-based approaches aimed at understanding how learners develop knowledge of the form-meaning relations (grammatical constructions) that comprise human language.

Ellis served as Editor in Chief of the academic journal ''Language Learning'' from 1998 to 2002 and General Editor of the journal from 2006-2020.

Ellis received the Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award from the American Association for Applied Linguistics in 2019. Provided by Wikipedia