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Nick C. Ellis
Nick C. Ellis is a Welsh psycholinguist, professor of psychology, and a research scientist at the English Language Institute of the University of Michigan. As a researcher, Ellis' focus is on applied linguistics with interest in second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, emergentism, complex dynamic systems approaches to language, reading and spelling acquisition in different languages, computational modeling and cognitive linguistics. Biography Ellis received his PhD degree in psychology at the University College of North Wales in 1978 and his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at the University of Oxford in 1974. Between 1976 and 1991 Ellis was a part-time tutor at the Open University, while also working as a lecturer in psychology at the University College of North Wales from 1978 to 1990. In 1990 he worked as a senior lecturer in psychology until 1994. In 1992 he was a visiting professor at the Temple University of Japan. Ellis worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.24 million. On the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, Liverpool historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the county of Lancashire. It became a borough in 1207, a city in 1880, and a county borough independent of the newly-created Lancashire County Council in 1889. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. Along with general cargo, freight, and raw materials such as coal and cotton, merchants were involved in the slave trade. In the 19th century, Liverpool was a major port of departure for English and Irish emigrants to North America. It was also home to both the Cunard and White Star Lines, and was the port of registry of the ocean li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
