Some Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Mellow, J. D. (2010). Fostering diversity and minimizing universals: Toward a non-colonialist approach to the acquisition of Algonquian languages. Native Studies Review, 19, 1, 67-100.

Mellow, J. D. (2008). The emergence of complex syntax: A longitudinal case study of the ESL development of dependency resolution. Lingua, 118, 4, 499-521. (Special issue comparing nativist and emergentist approaches to second language acquisition, guest-edited by Roger Hawkins.) 

Mellow, J. D. (2008). How big is minimal? Lingua, 118, 4, 632-635. (Special issue comparing nativist and emergentist approaches to second language acquisition, guest-edited by Roger Hawkins.)

Mellow, J.D. (2006). The emergence of second language syntax: A case study of the acquisition of relative clauses. Applied Linguistics, 27, 645-670. (Special issue on language emergence, guest-edited by Nick Ellis and Diane Larsen-Freeman.)

Mellow, J.D. (2004). Connectionism, HPSG signs, and SLA representations: Specifying principles of mapping between form and function. Second Language Research, 20, 131-165.

Mellow, J. D. (2002).  Toward principled eclecticism in language teaching: The Two-Dimensional Model and the Centring Principle.  TESL-EJ, 5, 4,  A1, 1-19. Available on-line at:  http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/ej20/a1.html

Mellow, J. D., & Stanley, K. (2002). Theory development in applied linguistics: Toward a connectionist framework for understanding second language acquisition. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 13, 3-39.

Mellow, J. D., Reeder, K., & Forster, E. (1996). Using the time-series design to investigate the effects of pedagogic intervention on SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 18,  325-350.

Mellow, J. D. (1996). On the primacy of theory in applied studies: A critique of Pienemann and Johnston (1987). Second Language Research, 12,  304-318.

Mellow, J. D., & Cumming, A. (1994). Concord in interlanguage: Efficiency or priming? Applied Linguistics, 15,  442-473.

Book Chapters

Mellow, J. D. (2004). The Two-dimensional Model and principled eclecticism: Classroom discourse and perspectives on grammatical syllabi. In Arshad Abd.Samad (Ed.),  Perspectives on Grammar in Language Education  (pp. 18-42). Serdang, Malaysia: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press.

Mellow, J. D. (2000). Western influences on indigenous language teaching. In J. Reyhner et al. (Eds.), Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education for a New Century (pp. 102-113).  Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona University. Available on-line at: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/LIB/LIBconts.html

Cumming, A., & Mellow, J. D. (1996). An investigation into the validity of written indicators of second language proficiency. In A. Cumming and R. Berwick (Eds.), Validation in Language Testing (pp. 72-93). Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters.

Mellow, J. D. (1992). A case study of rural second-language education: Barriers to adult settlement and education. In B. Burnaby and A. Cumming (Eds.), Socio-political Aspects of E.S.L. in Canada (pp. 292-303). Toronto: OISE Press.

Conference Proceedings

Hack, J. and Mellow, J. D. (2007). A functional analysis of the acquisition of Oji-Cree (Severn Ojibwe). Papers of the 38th Algonquian Conference (pp. 273-288). Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.

Mellow, J. D., & Stanley, K. (2001). Alternative accounts of developmental patterns: Toward a functional-cognitive model of second language acquisition.  Proceedings of the Third Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference  (pp. 51-65). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico.

Mellow, J. D. (1991). Integrating language and content in native language teaching. In W. Cowan. (Ed.), Papers of the Twenty-Second Algonquian Conference (pp. 203-212). Ottawa: Carleton University.

Mellow, J. D. (1990). Asymmetries between compounding and noun incorporation in Plains Cree. In W. Cowan. (Ed.), Papers of the Twenty-First Algonquian Conference (pp. 247-257). Ottawa: Carleton University.

Mellow, J. D. (1989). A syntactic approach to noun incorporation in Cree. In W. Cowan. (Ed.), Actes du Vingtième Congrès des Algonquinistes (pp. 250-261). Ottawa: Carleton University.