Lydia White
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lydia White plays a role.
Book series
Journal
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
Reply to commentaries Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”, pp. 895–900
2019 Reply
Prosodic effects on L2 grammars Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”, pp. 769–808
2019 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 the… read more | Article
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
2018 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 | Chapter
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
2018 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 | Chapter
Restrictions on definiteness in the grammars of German-Turkish heritage speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:1, pp. 1–32
2017 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 | To be specified
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
2016 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 | Article
Epistemological issue with keynote article “Early, late or very late? Timing acquisition and bilingualism” by Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, pp. 387–391
2014 Commentary
: Affirmative and negative existentials in the L2 English of Turkish and Russian speakers Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:1, pp. 54–89
2012 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 | Article
: How far does it extend? Epistemological issue with keynote article “Pinning down of “interface” in bilingualism” by Antonella Sorace, pp. 108–110
2011 Commentary
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
2009 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 | Article
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
2009 Article
‘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
2007 Article
Introduction L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan (eds.), pp. 1–14
2006 Miscellaneous
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
2004 Article
‘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
2004 Article
Psych verbs In Second Language Acquisition The Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach, Klein, Elaine C. and Gita Martohardjono (eds.), pp. 171 ff.
1999 Article
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 ff.
1998 Article
Clitics in L2 French Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons, Clahsen, Harald (ed.), pp. 335 ff.
1996 Article
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 ff.
1995 Article
Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance: UG or Processing Strategies? Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language, Eubank, Lynn (ed.), pp. 167 ff.
1991 Article
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
1990 Article