This study examines the roles of L1-L2 congruency, frequency, word class, and proficiency in L2 collocation processing. An acceptability judgment task was conducted to evaluate how participants ...

Here's a challenge: Assemble a meaningful phrase that returns fewer than 10 Google results. Now try "harsh reality" (151 billion results). Or "fearless leader" (a comparatively puny 25 billion).

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. You would think that, with all the words we have in our language, it would be perfectly natural to replace a word in an ...