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Scott Jarvis

Image of Scott Jarvis Scott Jarvis, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Linguistics
Gordy Hall 383
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701

jarvis at ohio dot edu

Courses taught
LING 5760: Second Language Acquisition (Fall Semester)
LING 5830: Assessing Language Abilities (Fall Semester)
LING 5940: Research Experience in Linguistics (every semester)

Research interests: crosslinguistic influence, lexical diversity, cognitive and conceptual factors in second language acquisition, bilingualism, and multilingualism

Labs

• Crosslinguistic Influence Lab

• Lexical Diversity Lab

Selected publications

Books and edited volumes

Jarvis, Scott, & Daller, Michael (Eds.) (2013). Vocabulary knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Jarvis, Scott, & Crossley, Scott A. (Eds.) (2012). Approaching language transfer through text classification: Explorations in the detection-based approach. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Jarvis, Scott (Ed.) (2011). Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14 (1). (Special issue on crosslinguistic influence in bilinguals’ concepts and conceptualizations, guest-edited by Scott Jarvis).
Jarvis, Scott, & Pavlenko, Aneta (2008). Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition. New York: Routledge.

Journal articles and book chapters

Castañeda-Jiménez, Gabriela, & Jarvis, Scott (2013). Exploring lexical diversity in second language Spanish. In K. Geeslin (Ed.), The handbook of Spanish second language acquisition (pp. 498-513). Boston: Wiley.
Jarvis, Scott, O’Malley, Michelle, Jing, Linye, Zhang, Jing, Hill, Jessica, Chan, Curtis, & Sevostyanova, Nadezhda (2013). Cognitive foundations of crosslinguistic influence. In J. Schwieter (Ed.), Innovative research and practices in second language acquisition and bilingualism (pp. 287-308). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Jarvis, Scott, Bestgen, Yves, & Pepper, Steve (2013). Maximizing classification accuracy in native language identification. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 111-118). Atlanta: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Jarvis, Scott (2013). Capturing the diversity in lexical diversity. Language Learning, 63 (Supplement 1), 87-106.
Jarvis, Scott (2012). Conceptual transfer. In P. Robinson (Ed.), Routledge encyclopedia of second language acquisition (pp. 115-117). London/New York: Routledge.
Jarvis, Scott, Castañeda-Jiménez, Gabriela, & Nielsen, Rasmus (2012). Detecting L2 writers’ L1s on the basis of their lexical styles. In S. Jarvis & S.A. Crossley (Eds.), Approaching language transfer through text classification: Explorations in the detection-based approach (pp. 34-70). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Jarvis, Scott, & Paquot, Magali (2012). Exploring the role of n-grams in L1 identification. In S. Jarvis & S.A. Crossley (Eds.), Approaching language transfer through text classification: Explorations in the detection-based approach (pp. 71-105). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Bylund, Emanuel, & Jarvis, Scott (2011). L2 effects on L1 event conceptualization patterns. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14, 47-59.
Jarvis, Scott (2011). Conceptual transfer: Crosslinguistic effects in categorization and construal. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14, 1-8.
Jarvis, Scott (2010). Comparison-based and detection-based approaches to transfer research. In L. Roberts, M. Howard, M. Ó Laoire, & D. Singleton (Eds.), EUROSLA Yearbook 10 (pp. 169-192). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
McCarthy, Philip, & Jarvis, Scott (2010). MTLD, vocd-D, and HD-D: A validation study of sophisticated approaches to lexical diversity assessment. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 381-392.
Jarvis, Scott (2009). Lexical transfer. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), Bilingual mental lexicon: Interdisciplinary approaches (pp. 99-124). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Jarvis, Scott (2007). Theoretical and methodological issues in the investigation of conceptual transfer. Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics (VIAL), 4, 43-71.
McCarthy, Philip, & Jarvis, Scott (2007). vocd: A theoretical and empirical evaluation. Language Testing, 24, 459-488.
Odlin, Terence, & Jarvis, Scott (2004). Same source, different outcomes: A study of Swedish influence on the acquisition of English in Finland. International Journal of Multilingualism, 1, 123-140.
Jarvis, Scott (2002). Topic continuity in L2 English article use. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 387-418.
Pavlenko, Aneta, & Jarvis, Scott (2002). Bidirectional transfer. Applied Linguistics, 23, 190-214.
Jarvis, Scott (2002). Short texts, best-fitting curves, and new measures of lexical diversity. Language Testing, 19, 57-84.
Jarvis, Scott, & Odlin, Terence (2000). Morphological type, spatial reference, and language transfer. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 22, 535-556.
Jarvis, Scott (2000). Methodological rigor in the study of transfer: Identifying L1 influence in the interlanguage lexicon. Language Learning, 50, 245-309.