Lydia White

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Lydia White plays a role.

Book series

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders (LALD)

Edited by Roumyana Slabakova and Lydia White

ISSN 0925-0123

Journal

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (LAB)

Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch

ISSN 1879-9264 | E-ISSN 1879-9272

Titles

L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42] 2006. viii, 433 pp.

Subjects Creole studies | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics

Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition

Lydia White

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 1] 1989. xii, 198 pp.

Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles (22) | Order by:

White, Lydia, Heather Goad, Guilherme Duarte Garcia, Natália Brambatti Guzzo, Liz Smeets and Jiajia Su 2024 Pronoun interpretation in Italian: Exploring the effects of prosody Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article

We explore potential effects of prosody on pronoun interpretation in Italian, building on previous research which has shown that second language learners/users (L2ers) assign non-target interpretations to overt pronouns. We investigate effects of contrastive stress and pause, proposing that… read more

Goad, Heather and Lydia White 2019 Reply to commentaries Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”, pp. 895–900 | Reply

Goad, Heather and Lydia White 2019 Prosodic effects on L2 grammars Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”, pp. 769–808 | Article

This paper provides an overview of the Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis (PTH), which accounts for certain difficulties that learners experience with L2 morphosyntax. We focus on inflection and articles, which have often been accounted for through defective syntactic representations or problems with… read more

White, Lydia 2018 Chapter 4. Formal linguistics and second language acquisition Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields, Miller, David, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Chapter

This paper motivates formal linguistic approaches to second language (L2) acquisition, particularly approaches grounded in generative grammar, and provides an overview of how such approaches have developed over time. The role of the mother tongue grammar and Universal Grammar (UG) in shaping the… read more

White, Lydia 2018 Chapter 10. What is easy and what is hard: Lessons from linguistic theory and SLA research Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova, Cho, Jacee, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya (eds.), pp. 263–282 | Chapter

This chapter presents an overview of research, past and present, which has explored the extent to which linguistic theory and generative second language (L2) research offer insights for the language classroom. A number of issues are addressed, including the potential role of negative evidence,… read more

Kupisch, Tanja, Alyona Belikova, Öner Özçelik, Ilse Stangen and Lydia White 2017 Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:1, pp. 1–32 | To be specified

This paper reports on a study investigating restrictions on definiteness (the Definiteness Effect) in existential constructions in the two languages of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany. Turkish and German differ in how the Definiteness Effect plays out. Definite expressions in German may not… read more

White, Lydia 2016 Pro-drop then and now: Changing perspectives on null subjects in second language acquisition Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras, Alba de la Fuente, Anahí, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz (eds.), pp. 17–35 | Article

This paper provides an overview and analysis of changing perspectives on null subjects in L2 research. Three phases of research are identified, focusing on: (i) the issue of parameter resetting, conceived in terms of the null subject parameter as originally formulated; (ii) the relationship of null… read more

White, Lydia 2014 Acquisition orders and windows of opportunity Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, pp. 387–391 | Commentary

White, Lydia, Alyona Belikova, Paul Hagstrom, Tanja Kupisch and Öner Özçelik 2012 Restrictions on definiteness in second language acquisition: Affirmative and negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:1, pp. 54–89 | Article

In this paper we investigate whether learners of L2 English show knowledge of the Definiteness Effect (Milsark, 1977), which restricts definite expressions from appearing in the existential there-insertion construction. There are crosslinguistic differences in how restrictions on definiteness play… read more

White, Lydia 2011 The Interface Hypothesis: How far does it extend? Epistemological issue with keynote article “Pinning down of “interface” in bilingualism” by Antonella Sorace, pp. 108–110 | Commentary

Goad, Heather and Lydia White 2009 Prosodic transfer and the representation of determiners in Turkish-English interlanguage Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins, Snape, Neal, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article

Problems with the second language (L2) acquisition of articles in Turkish-English interlanguage are examined, specifically omission, substitution of other determiners in place of articles, overuse of stressed articles and differential treatment of articles in DPs with and without adjectives.… read more

Goad, Heather and Lydia White 2009 Articles in Turkish/English interlanguage revisited: Implications of vowel harmony Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications, García Mayo, María del Pilar and Roger Hawkins (eds.), pp. 201–232 | Article

White, Lydia 2007 ‘Internal’ versus ‘external’ universals: Commentary on Eckman What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 241–243 | Article

Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan 2006 Introduction L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Miscellaneous

Goad, Heather and Lydia White 2004 Ultimate attainment of L2 inflection: Effects of L1 prosodic structure EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 4 (2004), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., Michael Sharwood Smith, Antonella Sorace and Mitsuhiko Ota (eds.), pp. 119–145 | Article

White, Lydia 2004 ‘Internal’ versus ‘external’ universals: Commentary on Eckman What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 704–706 | Article

White, Lydia, Cynthia Brown, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Dongdong Chen, Makiko Hirakawa and Silvina Montrul 1999 Psych verbs In Second Language Acquisition The Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach, Klein, Elaine C. and Gita Martohardjono (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Article

White, Lydia, Silvina Montrul, Makiko Hirakawa, Dongdong Chen, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Cynthia Brown 1998 Zero Morphology and the T/SM Restriction in the L2 Acquisition of Psych Verbs Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge, Beck, Maria-Luise (ed.), pp. 257–282 | Article

White, Lydia 1996 Clitics in L2 French Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons, Clahsen, Harald (ed.), pp. 335–368 | Article

White, Lydia 1995 Chasing after linguistic theory: How minimal should we be? The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford, Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 63–72 | Article

White, Lydia 1991 Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance: UG or Processing Strategies? Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language, Eubank, Lynn (ed.), pp. 167–190 | Article

White, Lydia 1990 Implications of Learnability Theories for Second Language Learning and Teaching Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987, Halliday, M.A.K. †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas (eds.), pp. 271–286 | Article