Lydia White

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Lydia White (born 1946) is a Canadian linguist and educator in the area of

second language acquisition (SLA).[1] She is James McGill Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at McGill University.[2][3]

Biography

She received her BA in Moral Sciences and Psychology from

Cambridge University in 1969 and PhD in linguistics from McGill University in 1980.[3][4]

Her PhD dissertation, published in book form as Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition, concerns

Universal Grammar
.

Honors and distinctions

In 2010 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Arts and Humanities.[6] In 2012, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.[7]

She currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Language Acquisition, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, and Second Language Research.[3] Together with Roumyana Slabakova, she is also co-editor of the book series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.[3][5]

A Festschrift in her honor, Inquiries in Linguistic Development, was published in 2006.[8]

Selected publications

Books

  • "Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition", 1982, Dordrecht: Foris
  • "Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition", 1989, Amsterdam: John Benjamins
  • "Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar", 2003, New York: Cambridge University Press

Articles

Lydia White has edited special issues of several leading journals in the field, and authored many articles in Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, and Language Acquisition.[9] Some notable examples include the following:

  • Prévost, Philippe and Lydia White. 2000. "Missing surface inflection or impairment in second language acquisition? Evidence from tense and agreement." Second Language Research 16: 103-133.
  • White, Lydia. 1991. "Adverb placement in second language acquisition: Some effects of positive and negative evidence in the classroom." Second Language Research 7: 133-161.
  • White, Lydia. 1985. "The "pro-drop" parameter in adult second language learning." Language Learning 35: 47-62.

References

  1. ^ "Lydia White - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  2. ^ James McGill / William Dawson Programme Archived 2009-09-06 at the Wayback Machine. McGill University. Retrieved on April 19, 2009
  3. ^ a b c d Faculty Page. McGill University. Retrieved on April 6, 2020
  4. ^ "Alumni". Linguistics. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  5. ^ a b Slabakova, Roumyana; Montrul, Silvina; Prévost, Philippe (2006). Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In Honor of Lydia White. John Benjamins Publishing.
  6. ^ "Royal Society of Canada". Royal Society of Canada. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  7. ^ "Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal". Board of Governors. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  8. OCLC 191931880.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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  9. ^ "Lydia White | Semantic Scholar". www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2022-08-19.

Sources

McGill University. James McGill / William Dawson Programme. McGill University, Associate Provost (Planning and Budgets). Retrieved on April 19, 2009

External links

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