Lydia White
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- Masters Linguistics University of British Columbia
- Bachelors Linguistics McGill University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lydia White is a Canadian linguist and educator in the area of second language acquisition . She is James McGill Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at McGill University. Biography She received her BA in Moral Sciences and Psychology from Cambridge University in 1969 and PhD in linguistics from McGill University in 1980.
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Published Works
- Missing Surface Inflection or Impairment in second language acquisition? Evidence from tense and agreement (2000) (766)
- Adverb placement in second language acquisition: some effects of positive and negative evidence in the classroom (1991) (666)
- Universal Grammar and second language acquisition (1989) (499)
- Against Comprehensible Input: the Input Hypothesis and the Development of Second-language Competence1 (1987) (446)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar (1990) (431)
- How native is near-native? The issue of ultimate attainment in adult second language acquisition (1996) (415)
- THE “PRO-DROP” PARAMETER IN ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (1985) (412)
- Positive Evidence and Preemption in the Second Language Classroom (1993) (323)
- Input Enhancement and L2 Question Formation. (1991) (311)
- Gender and number agreement in nonnative Spanish (2004) (297)
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and routine specialist care with and without cognitive behaviour therapy in adolescents with major depression: randomised controlled trial (2007) (278)
- Fossilization in steady state L2 grammars: Persistent problems with inflectional morphology (2003) (232)
- The Verb-Movement Parameter in Second Language Acquisition (1990) (222)
- The acquisition of the dative alternation: Unlearning overgeneralizations (1984) (190)
- UG or not UG, that is the question: a reply to Clahsen and Muysken (1987) (161)
- Second language acquisition at the interfaces (2011) (160)
- Long and Short Verb Movement in Second Language Acquisition (1992) (160)
- Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: a prosodic approach (2006) (148)
- Missing Inflection in L2 Acquisition: Defective Syntax or LI-Constrained Prosodic Representations? (2003) (131)
- Functional Categories in Child L2 Acquisition of French (1996) (131)
- The Second Language Acquisition of Spanish DPS: the Status of Grammatical Features (2002) (123)
- Assessing L2 knowledge of Spanish clitic placement: converging methodologies (1999) (120)
- On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language (2008) (104)
- L2 Acquisition of Spanish DPs: the status of grammatical features. (2000) (103)
- GRAMMATICAL THEORY, INTERFACES AND L2 KNOWLEDGE (2007) (102)
- Markedness and Second Language Acquisition (1987) (95)
- Ultimate Attainment of L2 Inflection: Effects of L1 Prosodic Structure (2004) (94)
- Is There a "Logical Problem" of Second Language Acquisition? (1985) (85)
- Island Effects in Second Language Acquisition (1988) (75)
- Argument structure in second language acquisition (1991) (74)
- On triggering data in L2 acquisition: a reply to Schwartz and Gubala-Ryzak (1992) (72)
- The acquisition of parameterized grammars (1985) (70)
- Grammatical theory and language acquisition (1982) (67)
- The Researcher Gave the Subject a Test about Himself: Problems of Ambiguity and Preference in the Investigation of Reflexive Binding (1997) (66)
- L2 acquisition and Creole genesis : dialogues (2006) (64)
- Linguistic Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition: The adjacency condition on case assignment: do L2 learners observe the Subset Principle? (1989) (58)
- PROSODIC STRUCTURE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF L2 FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY: A NATIVIST APPROACH (2008) (54)
- Clitic placement in L2 French: evidence from sentence matching (2002) (53)
- Markedness and Parameter Setting: Some Implications for a Theory of Adult Second Language Acquisition (1986) (43)
- The interface hypothesis: How far does it extend? (2011) (38)
- Psych verbs In Second Language Acquisition (1999) (37)
- EVIDENCE FOR THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE HYPOTHESIS OR NOT? (2009) (37)
- Implications of Learnability Theories for Second Language Learning and Teaching (1990) (36)
- Subjacency Violations and Empty Categories in Second Language Acquisition (1992) (35)
- Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance: UG or Processing Strategies? (1991) (34)
- UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: THE NATURE OF INTERLANGUAGE REPRESENTATION * (1998) (34)
- Linguistic Theory, Universal Grammar, and Second Language Acquisition (2014) (32)
- Second language acquisition and Binding Principle B: child/adult differences (1998) (30)
- Effects of Instruction on Second Language Acquisition of the Japanese Long-Distance Reflexive Zibun (1996) (30)
- The Influence of Linguistic Theories on Language Acquisition Research: Description and Explanation. (1987) (29)
- Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage (2009) (28)
- Accounting for morphological variation in second language acquisition: truncation or missing inflection? (2014) (27)
- Some questions about feature re-assembly (2009) (21)
- Chasing after linguistic theory: How minimal should we be? (1995) (19)
- Ultimate Attainment of L 2 Inflection : Effects of L 1 Prosodic Structure (2007) (19)
- Articles in Turkish/English interlanguage revisited: Implications of vowel harmony (2009) (19)
- Prosodic effects on L2 grammars (2019) (19)
- Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers (2017) (19)
- Different? Yes. Fundamentally? No.Definiteness Effects in the L2 English of Mandarin Speakers (2008) (19)
- Error Analysis and Error Correction in Adult Learners of English as a Second Language. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 13. (1977) (19)
- Linguistic universals, markedness and learnability: comparing two different approaches (1989) (18)
- 3. Universal grammar and language transfer (1988) (17)
- Chapter 4. Formal linguistics and second language acquisition (2018) (15)
- Sleumeria (Icacinaceae): A New Genus from Northern Borneo (2005) (15)
- The Role of Instrution in SLA (1993) (14)
- The Acquisition of Wh-Question Formation by Malagasy Learners of English: Evidence for Universal Grammar (1992) (13)
- Invariance and factorial models. Discussion (2000) (12)
- The initial state (2003) (11)
- Restrictions on definiteness in second language acquisition (2012) (11)
- Pronoun Interpretation in the Second Language: Effects of Computational Complexity (2017) (10)
- Restrictions on definiteness in L2 English (2009) (10)
- SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND (2003) (9)
- Prosodic Transfer at Different Levels of Structure : The L 2 Acquisition of Spanish Plurals (2011) (9)
- Universal Grammar in the Second Language (2003) (8)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. (2003) (8)
- Crosslinguistic influence revisited: an L2 perspective (2001) (7)
- Intensive multidisciplinary feeding intervention for patients with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder associated with severe food selectivity: An electronic health record review. (2021) (6)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar: Universal Grammar and language acquisition (2003) (6)
- Universal Grammar, crosslinguistic variation and second language acquisition (2012) (6)
- Zero morphology and the T/SM restriction in the L2 acquisition of Psych Verbs. (1998) (6)
- SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (2005) (4)
- A Note on Phinney (1987) (4)
- Changing perspectives on universal grammar and the critical period hypothesis (2009) (4)
- Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in L 2 Parsing : Effects of Prosodic Boundaries and Constituent Length (2013) (4)
- Choosing between theories: Can L3 acquisition really decide? (2020) (4)
- There aren’t many difficulties with definiteness : Negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian Speakers (2011) (3)
- Chasing after linguistic theory (1995) (3)
- Nonconvergence on the native speaker grammar: Defining L2 success (2018) (3)
- ‘Internal’ versus ‘external’ universals (2004) (3)
- PARSING AMBIGUOUS RELATIVE CLAUSES IN L2 ENGLISH (2020) (3)
- Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution:Effects of Prosodic Breaks and Prosodic Length (2011) (3)
- The Autism Family Experience Questionnaire (AFEQ): An Ecologically-Valid, Parent-Nominated Measure of Family Experience, Quality of Life and Prioritised Outcomes for Early Intervention (2017) (3)
- Intervention in relative clauses: Effects of relativized minimality on L2 representation and processing (2020) (3)
- Determining L2 knowledge of Spanish clitics - On line and off line. (1998) (2)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar: Ultimate attainment: the nature of the steady state (2003) (2)
- Chapter 10. What is easy and what is hard (2018) (2)
- The Question of Transfer (2008) (2)
- Should linguistics be applied and, if so, how? (2022) (1)
- Definiteness in positive and negative existentials in the L2 of Russian speakers (2010) (1)
- HOW TO SET PARAMETERS: ARGUMENTS FROM LANGUAGE CHANGE. David Lightfoot. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 214. $27.50. (1992) (1)
- UG, the L1, and questions of evidence (1996) (1)
- Children’s Overgeneralizations of the English Dative Alternation (2021) (1)
- L2 psych verbs, zero morphology and the T/SM restriction. (1997) (1)
- Prosodic effects on pronoun interpretation in Italian (2021) (1)
- LANGUAGE LEARNABILITY AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT . Steven Pinker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. Pp. xi + 435. (1988) (1)
- Pro-drop then and now: Changing perspectives on null subjects in second language acquisition (2016) (1)
- The implications of divergent outcomes in L2 acquisition (1998) (1)
- Norman Roessler and Anthony Squiers (eds.). Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance (2020) (0)
- Singularity and Remainder: (2020) (0)
- Chapter 6: examines the relevance of learnability theories for L2 acquisition. (1989) (0)
- Ela E. Gezen. Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature. Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960. Camden House, 2018. (2019) (0)
- Norman Roessler and Anthony Squiers (eds.). Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance. Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2018. 206 pages. (2020) (0)
- Library Education on Trial (1952) (0)
- POS-594 CEFUROXIME AS AN OUTPATIENT HAEMODIALYSIS-BASED ANTIBIOTIC REGIME FOR THE TREATMENT OF MSSA BACTERAEMIA. RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC APPROACH USING CEFUROXIME OVER VANCOMYCIN (2022) (0)
- Chapter 3: reviews research on the principles of UG in L2 acquisition. (1989) (0)
- THE GRAMMATICAL BASIS OF LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE: LANGUAGE USE AND ACQUISITION . Robert C. Berwick & Amy S. Weinberg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. Pp. xviii + 325. $9.95. (1987) (0)
- Impact: World Development in British Education. (1971) (0)
- Chapter 5: considers the effects of markedness (as defined within the UG perspective). (1989) (0)
- Language acquisition & language disorders (1989) (0)
- Chapter 4: reviews the role of parameters of UG in L2 acquisition. (1989) (0)
- Chapter 7: discusses the implications of cognitive modularity. (1989) (0)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar: Principles of Universal Grammar in L2 acquisition (2003) (0)
- Is It Possible to Do All Semantic Interpretation Off Surface Structure? Montreal Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 8. (1977) (0)
- Chapter 2: advocates the extension of these arguments to L2 acquisition. (1989) (0)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar: Morphological variability and the morphology/syntax interface (2003) (0)
- Universal Grammar and Language Learnability . Anjum P. Saleemi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. x + 168. $44.95 (1994) (0)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar: Notes (2003) (0)
- Pronoun interpretation in Italian: assessing the effects of prosody (2021) (0)
- Chapter 1: outlines arguments for UG in L1 acquisition and presents a brief overview of GB theory. (1989) (0)
- Reply to commentaries_final w pub info (2020) (0)
- Acquisition orders and windows of opportunity (2014) (0)
- The acquisition of English functional categories by native speakers of Inuktitut (1993) (0)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar: The transition problem, triggering and input (2003) (0)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar: Argument structure (2003) (0)
- Pro-drop then and now (2016) (0)
- Nina M. Hyams, Language acquisition and the theory of parameters . Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1986. Pp. xiii + 186. (1989) (0)
- Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar: Grammars beyond the initial state: parameters and functional categories (2003) (0)
- Singularity and Remainder: Brecht’s Theater of Others (2020) (0)
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