Martha Young-Scholten

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Martha Young-Scholten's Degrees

Masters Linguistics University of Essex
Bachelors Linguistics University of York

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According to Wikipedia, Martha Young-Scholten is a linguist specialising in the phonology and syntax of second language acquisition . Education and career Young-Scholten obtained a master's degree in linguistics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her PhD at the same institution, which was awarded in 1991, concerned the structure of phonology in German as a second language. She has been a Prof of SLA at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University in the United Kingdom since September 2006.

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Martha Young-Scholten's Published Works

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Gradual development of L2 phrase structure (1996) (462)
Direct Access to X’-Theory: Evidence from Korean and Turkish adults learning German (1994) (357)
The early stages in adult L2 syntax: additional evidence from Romance speakers (1996) (207)
Consonant Harmony in Child Language: An Optimality-theoretic Account* (1998) (84)
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition: Frontmatter (2013) (68)
Input Matters in SLA (2009) (55)
Orthographic input in L2 phonological development (2002) (53)
Morphosyntactic Triggers in Adult SLA (1998) (51)
Tree growth and morphosyntactic triggers in adult SLA (1995) (45)
Focus on phonological acquisition (1997) (41)
The role of orthographic input in second language German: Evidence from naturalistic adult learners’ production (2015) (40)
On positive evidence and ultimate attainment in L2 phonology (1994) (39)
Research on Low-Educated Second language and Literacy Acquisition (2006) (37)
Low-educated immigrants and the social relevance of second language acquisition research (2013) (36)
The negative effects of ‘positive’ evidence on L2 phonology (1995) (35)
The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic Grammar, the Basic Variety and Processability Theory (2006) (32)
First-time L2 readers: Is there a critical period? (2006) (30)
The Acquisition of German: Introducing Organic Grammar (2011) (22)
The acquisition of prosodic structure in a second language (1993) (20)
Low-Educated Adult Second Language and Literacy Acquisition : Proceedings of the Inaugural SymposiumTilburg University, August 2005 (2006) (18)
Non-literate L2 adults’ small steps in mastering the constellation of skills required for reading (2013) (17)
Prosodic constraints on allophonic distribution in adult L2 acquisition (2004) (16)
Low-educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition: Research, Policy and Practice (2008) (15)
Interference Reconsidered: The Role of Similarity in Second Language Acquisition. (1985) (14)
Minimalism vs. Organic Syntax (2006) (14)
Low-Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition : Proceedings of the Inaugural Symposium Tilburg 2005 (2006) (13)
Who are adolescents and adults who develop literacy for the first time in an L2, and why are they of research interest? (2015) (13)
Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach (2009) (11)
The second language segment revisited (2003) (10)
Restructuring the CP in L2 German (2002) (10)
Partial transfer, not partial access (1996) (9)
All acquisition begins with the projection of a bare verb phrase (2010) (8)
The status of subjects in early child L2 English (2008) (7)
8. Yo gusto … Expanding choice or syntactic attrition? (2011) (7)
The Initial State in the L2 Acquisition of Phrase Structure (2014) (6)
A new research programme for the L2 acquisition of phonology . . (1996) (6)
Teaching Adult Migrants (2018) (5)
Repair of L2 syllables through metathesis (2001) (5)
Teaching adult migrants: A focus on the languages they speak (2018) (5)
Emergentism, connectionism and complexity (2013) (4)
Universal minimal structure: Evidence and theoretical ramifications (2013) (4)
Neuter gender and interface vulnerability in child L 2 / 2 L 1 (2005) (4)
International training of teachers of low-educated adult migrants (2017) (3)
Literacy in the development of L2 English morphosyntax (2017) (3)
Development in phonology: Another perspective on age (2011) (3)
How can we best measure adult ESL student progress (2006) (3)
Interlanguage and postlexical transfer (1997) (3)
(Mis) perception of consonant clusters and short vowels in English as a foreign language (2021) (3)
Great Expectations in Phonology? Second Language Acquisition Research and Its Relation to the Teaching of Older and Younger Learners (2013) (3)
Focus on Form and Linguistic Competence: Why Krashen Is Still Right about Acquisition. (1999) (2)
Writing to a brief: Creating fiction for immigrant adults (2010) (2)
NEWCASTLE AND NORTHUMBRIA WORKING PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS (2014) (2)
Current issues in the first and second language acquisition of phonology (1997) (2)
Creating New Fiction for Low-educated Immigrant Adults (2015) (2)
Developing technology-enhanced literacy learning for LESLLA learners (2014) (2)
Reaching out to the other side: Formal-linguistics-based SLA and Socio-SLA (2013) (2)
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND THE CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS. David Birdsong (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. x + 191. $45.00 cloth. (2001) (1)
Appendix A: Test sentences (1993) (1)
The straight and narrow path (2012) (1)
The Role of Delayed Output on Second/Foreign Language Pronunciation in Children (2021) (1)
Is there a critical period for learning to read (2004) (1)
Mind Matters in SLA (2018) (1)
Stories for extensive reading for LESLLA learners (2009) (1)
Chapter 5. The L2 acquisition of cliticization in German (1993) (1)
THE AGE FACTOR IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.David Singleton and Zsolt Lengyel. Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1995. Pp. viii + 160. (1997) (1)
What do adult L2 learners know about phonology after minimal exposure (2014) (1)
Using Materials in Refugee and Immigrant Adults' Heritage Languages in Instruction (2021) (1)
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition: Selected references (2013) (0)
The low-educated second language learner (2005) (0)
Islands in the stream of Spanish-English contact in the USA (2010) (0)
Second Language Syntax: A Generative Introduction: Roger Hawkins, 2001, pp. i–xviii and 1–386, hardback ISBN 0-631-19183-6, paperback ISBN 0-631-19184-4. (2003) (0)
Writing fiction for first-time readers (2011) (0)
Chapter 2: The second language acquisition of phonology (1993) (0)
Chapter 4. Second language acquisition at the VP level (2011) (0)
6. The Mystery of the Missing Inflections (2018) (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition: Glossary (2013) (0)
1. Introduction (2018) (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition: Notes (2013) (0)
Chapter 8. Naturalistic learners and unsolved problems in SLA (2011) (0)
Second Language Research Editor Emeritus (2013) (0)
Acquisition and Assessment of Morphosyntax (2020) (0)
Chapter 3: Cliticization in Standard German (1993) (0)
Low-educated adult migrant research at the international level (2011) (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition: Examples of structured input activities (2013) (0)
Second Language Linguistic Competence and Literacy of Adult Migrants with Little or No Home Language Literacy (2021) (0)
Theory and practice in teaching immigrant adults with limited education and literacy (2017) (0)
6. Finding their Heads: How Immigrant Adults Posit L2 Functional Projections (2019) (0)
Appendix C: Results for individual test subjects (1993) (0)
Investigating UK Spanish variety: Implications for heritage speaker acquisition (2010) (0)
Linguistics and Language Sciences Research Day 2011 (2012) (0)
Chapter 2. Organic Syntax of Adult German (2011) (0)
Chapter 6. Differences in triggering between children and adults (2011) (0)
Pleasure Reading for Immigrant Adults on a Volunteer-Run Programme (2022) (0)
Initial evidence for the attractiveness, feasibility and effectiveness of multi-lingual online training and development for LESLLA teachers (2016) (0)
Chapter 4: The acquisition of cliticization (1993) (0)
Appendix Β: Details of the input (1993) (0)
The L2 Acquisition of Cliticization in Standard German (2000) (0)
Chapter 7. The second language acquisition of the CP projection (2011) (0)
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition: Stagelike development and Organic Grammar (2013) (0)
Chapter 3. Organic Grammar and L1 acquisition (2011) (0)
Second language acquisition research and low-schooled adult learners (2005) (0)

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