Bethany Gray

Best Publications

• Should we use characteristics of conversation to measure grammatical complexity in L2 writing development

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray;Kornwipa Poonpon

  802
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• Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray

  780
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• Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray

  364
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• Predicting Patterns of Grammatical Complexity Across Language Exam Task Types and Proficiency Levels

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray;Shelley Staples

  324
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• Grammatical change in the noun phrase: the influence of written language use

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray

  303
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• Academic Writing Development at the University Level: Phrasal and Clausal Complexity Across Level of Study, Discipline, and Genre

  Shelley Staples;Jesse Egbert;Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray

  277
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• Linguistic Variation in Research Articles

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  220
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• Current Conceptions of Stance

  Bethany Gray;Douglas Biber

  180
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• Discourse Characteristics of Writing and Speaking Task Types on the TOEFL iBT ® Test: A Lexico-Grammatical Analysis

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray

  177
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• Investigating grammatical complexity in L2 English writing research: Linguistic description versus predictive measurement

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray;Shelley Staples;Jesse Egbert

  148
  Citations

• Lexical frames in academic prose and conversation

  Bethany Gray;Douglas Biber

  147
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• Being Specific about Historical Change: The Influence of Sub-Register

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray

  141
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• Corpus pragmatics : a handbook

  Karin Aijmer;Christoph Rühlemann

  139
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• On the use of demonstrative pronouns and determiners as cohesive devices: A focus on sentence-initial this/these in academic prose

  Bethany Gray

  95
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• Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora

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  94
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• Linguistic Variation in Research Articles: When discipline tells only part of the story

  Bethany Gray

  93
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• More than discipline: uncovering multi-dimensional patterns of variation in academic research articles

  Bethany Gray

  88
  Citations

• Nominalizing the verb phrase in academic science writing

  Douglas Biber;Bethany Gray

  75
  Citations

• Perception vs. evidence: An analysis of this and these in academic prose

  Bethany Gray;Viviana Cortes

  75
  Citations

• Variationist versus text-linguistic approaches to grammatical change in English: nominal modifiers of head nouns

  Douglas Biber;Jesse Egbert;Bethany Gray;Rahel Oppliger

  54
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