Publications

Journal Articles

2021	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Voiceovers and Do-overs: Increasing Our Chances to Connect. The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching, 6(2)
2021	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Gaining awareness of different causes of OCR errors: Examining messy data.” Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
2016	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Learning English Bare Singulars: Data in the L2 Classroom,” E-JournALL: EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages 3(1): 1-22.
2013	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of stress,” Communication & Medicine 10(1): 81-93.
2009	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Semantic Incorporation as an Account for some Bare Singular Count Noun Uses in English,” Lingua 119(2): 314-333 (doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2007.10.017).
2007	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Lexical Conflation and Edible Iconicity: Two Sources of Ambiguity in American Vernacular Health Terminology,” Communication & Medicine 4(2): 189-199.
2006	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “The Contingent Meaning of -ex Brand Names in English,” (pdf). Corpora 1(2): 217-250.
2005	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Inferring New Vocabulary Using Online Texts,” Computers in the Schools 22(1/2): 85-96. (Published simultaneously in the volume Internet Applications of Type II Uses of Technology in Education, ed. by Cleborne D. Maddux).

Book Chapters

2023	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Who builds it, who benefits? Deepening student and faculty knowledge about Wikipedia’s scholarly value,” Aspects of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education: A Global Perspective, (Future Education and Learning Spaces Series). Jako Olivier and Andreas Rambow (eds.). Singapore: Springer. Pp. 129-154.
2014	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Truth is, sentence-initial bare shell nouns are showing up bare.”Complex Visibles Out There. Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2014: Language Use and Linguistic Structure. Ludmila Veselovská and Markéta Janebová (eds.). Olomouc: Palacký University. Pp. 591-606.
2007	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “The Functional Range of Bare Singular Count Nouns in English,” Nominal Determination: Typology, Context Constraints, and Historical Emergence (Studies in Language Companion Series 89), Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham, (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 171-187.
2006	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Diachronic Change in The Discourse Markers Why and Say in American English,” Corpus Linguistics: Applications for the Study of English. Ana María Hornero, María José Luzón, and Silvia Murillo, (eds.). Bern: Peter Lang Verlag. Pp. 61-76.

Conference Proceedings and Working Papers

2021	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Collaborative group work and increased diversity through Wikipedia editing,” themed issue of the Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. Volume 6(2).
2020	Aishwarya Ashok, Ganapathy Natarajan, Ramez Elmasri, and Laurel Smith-Stvan. “SimsterQ: A Similarity based Clustering Approach to Opinion Question Answering. Proceedings of The 3rd Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics. Pp. 69–76.
2008	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Health Literacy: A Single Meaning or Three Senses Conflated? The Language of Health Care: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care. IULMA: University of Alicante, Spain. Pp. 1-13.
2003	Vana, S., Boppana, P., Mariappan, V., Stvan, L., & Aslandogan, Y. “Empowering Educators in Visual Learning: Information Extraction and Visualization for Automatic Generation of Multimedia Presentations” in Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2003(1), 1371-1374.
2001	Serdiukov, Peter and Laurel Smith Stvan. “ESL/EFL Websites: What Should the Teachers and Students Be Prepared to Find On the Internet?” Proceedings of the WebNet 2001 World Conference on the WWW and Internet. Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Pp. 1102-1105. (Revised as a 29-page Eric document. (pdf).
2001	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “How About It? The Role of Accent and Context in Determining Discourse Function.” Papers from the Tenth Annual Student Conference in Linguistics, 1998. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #37, Feist et al. eds. Pp. 243-253.
1993	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Activity Implicatures and Possessor Implicatures: What Are Locations When There Is No Article?” Papers from the 29th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Beals, et al. eds. Chicago: CLS. Pp. 419-433.
1992	Bertram, Anne, Talke Macfarland, Mari Broman Olsen, and Laurel Smith Stvan. “Who Did What When: A Reference Guide,” Northwestern University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4. Pp. 85-96.
1991	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Two Types of Bare Noun Reference in Prepositional Phrases,” Northwestern University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 3. Pp. 147-154.

Book Reviews and Book Notes

2018	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Human Communication Across Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Introduction to Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics” (2016), for Discourse Studies 20.2: 316-318.
2017	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of WAC and Second-Language Writers: Research Towards Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices (2014),” for Open Textbook Library. Posted 4/12/2017.
2015	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Technology in Interlanguage Pragmatics Research and Teaching ed. by Naoko Taguchi and Julie M. Sykes (2013)” for Discourse Studies 17.4: 485-487.
2014	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel (2013)” for LibraryThing Early Reviewers Feb 8, 2014.
2011	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders, ed. by Nino Amiridze, Boyd H. Davis & Margaret Maclagan (2010)” for Studies in Language 35.4: 945-950.
2009	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Corpora for University Language Teachers,ed. by Carol Taylor Torsello, Katherine Ackerley, and Erik Castello (2008)” for TESL-EJ 13.2.
2009	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, by Louise Cummings (2005),” for the site International Cognitive Linguistics Association.
2008	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Advice Online: Advice-giving in an American Internet Health Column, by Miriam A. Locher (2006)” for Language in Society 37.5: 765.
2007	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of The Language of Websites, by Mark Boardman (2005)” for Language and Literature 16.4: 405-406.
2006	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora, ed. by Geoff Barnbrook, Pernilla Danielsson, and Michaela Mahlberg (2005)” for Discourse Studies 8.2: 330-331.
2004	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of Working with Specialized Language: A Practical Guide to Using Corpora, by Lynne Bowker and Jennifer Pearson (2002)” for Discourse Studies 6.2: 283-4.
2001	Stvan, Laurel Smith. “Review of The Language of Speech and Writing, by Sandra Cornbleet and Ronald Carter (2001)” for LINGUIST list, Dec. 1, 2001: 12.3000.

Volume Co-Editor

1993	Stvan, Laurel Smith, Stephen Ryberg, Mari Broman Olsen, Talke Macfarland, Linda DiDesidero, Anne Bertram, and Larin Adams. FLSM III: Papers from the Third Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
1993	Stvan, Laurel Smith, Pilar Ron, Cathy Coppolillo, and Victoria Muehleisen. Northwestern University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 5. Evanston, IL: NU Dept. of Linguistics.
1992	Stvan, Laurel Smith, Victoria Muehleisen, Talke Macfarland, and Larin Adams. Northwestern University Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 4. Evanston, IL: NU Dept. of Linguistics.

PhD Dissertation

1998	Stvan, Laurel Smith. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Bare Singular Noun Phrases. Ph.D. Dissertation. Northwestern University.