Publications
Peer-reviewed articles in reverse-chronological order, followed by manuscripts under review and work in progress. Citations appear under the published name, Akbary, M.
Peer-reviewed articles
- 2026
Akbary, M. Sense-Tagging Legal Language: Corpus-Based Disambiguation in Jury Instructions. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. DOI ↗
- 2026
Jarvis, S. & Akbary, M. Sentence repetition, paraphrasing, and comprehension: Can you repeat a sentence without understanding it? Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1–35. DOI ↗
- 2024
Benzaia, L., Jarvis, S., Akbary, M. & Park, L. Investigating the relationship between L2 proficiency and Miranda rights comprehension. International Journal of Speech, Language & the Law, 31(2), 291–327. DOI ↗
- 2023
Akbary, M., Benzaia, L., Jarvis, S. & Park, L. Evaluating the utility of elicited imitation as a measure of listening comprehension in the context of forensic linguistics. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 2(3). Elsevier. DOI ↗
- 2023
Akbary, M. & Jarvis, S. Lexical diversity as a predictor of genre in American TV shows. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(3), 921–936. Oxford University Press. DOI ↗
- 2019
Omidian, T., Akbary, M. & Shahriari, H. Exploring factors contributing to the receptive and productive knowledge of phrasal verbs. WORD, 65(1), 1–24. DOI ↗
- 2016
Akbary, M., Shahriari, H. & Hosseini Fatemi, A. The value of song lyrics for teaching and learning English phrasal verbs. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 1–13. DOI ↗
Under review
- Kendro, K., Akbary, M., Grixoni, F., Egbert, J., Eggington, B. & Jarvis, S. (under review, Applied Linguistics). Linguistic challenges to comprehending and interpreting jury instructions.
- Grixoni, F., Akbary, M., Demir, Y., Egbert, J., Kendro, K. & Jarvis, S. (under review, IJSLL). Assessing the Comprehensibility of Jury Instructions: A Multi-Method Linguistic Approach.
- Benzaia, L., Jarvis, S., Christison, M. & Akbary, M. (under review, IJSLL). A Rights-Based Rubric for Assessing Miranda Comprehension.
In progress
- Akbary, M. & Jarvis, S. (in progress). Predictive Complexity Modeling of Miranda Warnings: A Large-Scale Statistical Analysis of Legal Comprehensibility.
- Akbary, M. (in progress). Mapping Phrasal Verb Distribution in Television Data: A Statistical Comparison of Genre-Specific Exposure.
- Akbary, M. & Plonsky, L. (in progress). Automatic Data Extraction in Meta-Analyses of L2 Research.