Heather Goad
List of John Benjamins publications for which Heather Goad plays a role.
Book series
Naïve English-speaking learners’ use of indirect positive evidence: The case of Mandarin plural marking Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:2, pp. 115–146 | Article
2024 When second language learners are faced with acquiring a grammar that is a subset of their native language grammar, direct positive evidence is unavailable. We question whether learners can instead use indirect positive evidence: evidence drawn from errors in the learner’s L1 made by native… read more
Pronoun interpretation in Italian: Exploring the effects of prosody Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
2024 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
2019
Prosodic effects on L2 grammars Epistemological issue with keynote article “Prosodic effects on L2 grammars”, pp. 769–808 | Article
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… read more
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
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
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
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
2004 Phonetic evidence for phonological structure in syllabification The Phonological Spectrum: Volume II: Suprasegmental structure, Weijer, Jeroen van de, Vincent J. van Heuven and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), pp. 3–30 | Article
2003 Consonant harmony in child language: an optimality theoretic account Focus on Phonological Acquisition, Hannahs, S.J. and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 113–289 | Article
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