Martha Young-Scholten

List of John Benjamins publications for which Martha Young-Scholten plays a role.

Yearbook

Titles

Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz

Edited by Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] 2006. viii, 222 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics

Focus on Phonological Acquisition

Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Martha Young-Scholten

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 16] 1997. v, 289 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Phonology

Articles

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Pavlovskaya, Natalia, Nick Riches and Martha Young-Scholten 2024 Chapter 8. First exposure to Russian word forms by adult English speakers: Disentangling language‑specific and language‑universal factors Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll, Hracs, Lindsay (ed.), pp. 191–224 | Chapter

How language learners segment (recognise and store words) in the speech stream has typically been explored with children (Jusczyk 1997). Researchers have only recently begun to examine how adults segment an unfamiliar natural language after first exposure without instruction (Gullberg et al.… read more

Vainikka, Anne and Martha Young-Scholten 2013 Universal Minimal Structure: Evidence and theoretical ramifications Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:2, pp. 180–212 | Article

This paper addresses the fundamental question of whether (or how) functional projections are acquired during the development of syntax. However, rather than concentrating on the actual acquisition of functional projections, we consider the starting point of syntactic development: if functional… read more

Vainikka, Anne and Martha Young-Scholten 2012 The straight and narrow path Epistemological issue with keynote article “Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment” by Ewa Dabrowska, pp. 319–323 | Commentary

Cazzoli-Goeta, Marcela and Martha Young-Scholten 2011 8. Yo gusto… Expanding choice or syntactic attrition? Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies, Potowski, Kim and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Article

Whether an individual’s L1 syntax is affected by the acquisition of an L2 in adulthood is under debate. Also debated are the drivers of language change at the community level. Under strict generative views (e.g. Lightfoot 1999), change is led by children when they receive input different from the… read more

Vainikka, Anne and Martha Young-Scholten 2009 Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins, Snape, Neal, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 53–68 | Article

Under Organic Grammar (Vainikka and Young-Scholten 2005; 2007), the building of L2 syntactic structure is constrained by UG in interaction with primary linguistic data. On the basis of verb raising, we argue against the partial UG availability pursued in Hawkins and Chan (1997) in their Failed… read more

Mobaraki, Mohsen, Anne Vainikka and Martha Young-Scholten 2008 The status of subjects in early child L2 English Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 209–235 | Article

Proponents of Full Transfer/Full Access take nominative subject forms in early child L2 English as evidence for initial state functional projections. We discuss early stage longitudinal data from two Farsi-speaking children acquiring English. Our data reveal non-contrastive use of nominative… read more

Vainikka, Anne and Martha Young-Scholten 2007 Minimalism vs. organic syntax Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 319–338 | Article

In this paper, we discuss Minimalism versus Organic Grammar, and define Organic Grammar for syntax (Organic Syntax) as an alternative to theMinimalist Program. We argue that language learners gradually acquire a Master Tree for a particular language that ends up including all possible functional… read more

Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten 2006 Introduction Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Miscellaneous

Vainikka, Anne and Martha Young-Scholten 2006 The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic grammar, the basic variety and processability theory Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 77–106 | Article

Vainikka, Anne and Martha Young-Scholten 1998 Morphosyntactic Triggers in Adult SLA Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge, Beck, Maria-Luise (ed.), pp. 89 ff. | Article

Young-Scholten, Martha and S.J. Hannahs 1997 Current issues in the first and second language acquisition of phonology Focus on Phonological Acquisition, Hannahs, S.J. and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article

Young-Scholten, Martha 1995 The negative effects of ‘positive’ evidence on L2 phonology The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford, Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 107 ff. | Article

Vainikka, Anne and Martha Young-Scholten 1994 Direct Access to X’-Theory: Evidence from Korean and Turkish adults learning German Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar, Hoekstra, Teun and Bonnie D. Schwartz (eds.), pp. 265 ff. | Article