Lydia White

2007. “Linguistic Theory, Universal Grammar, and Second Language Acquisition” .
2007. “Different? Yes. Fundamentally? No. Definiteness Effects in the L2 English of Mandarin Speakers. 2006. with Goad, Heather. Ultimate Attainment in Interlanguage Grammars: A Prosodic Approach. 2003. Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. 2003. “On the nature of interlanguage representation: universal grammar in the second language”. 2001. Allen, Stanley; Deuchar, Margaret; Dopke, Susanne; Kato, Mary Aizawa; Koppe, Regina; Paradis, Johanne; Roeper, Thomas; Schlyter, Suzanne; Tracy, Rosemarie. The Importance of Discourse-Pragmatics in Acquisition.
2000. with Prevost, Philippe. Missing Surface Inflection or Impairment in Second Language Acquisition? Evidence from Tense and Agreement.
1999. with Duffield, Nigel. Assessing L2 Knowledge of Spanish Clitic Placement: Converging Methodologies.
1999. with Brown, Cynthia, Bruhn-Garavito, Joyce, Chen, Dongdong, Hirakawa, Makiko, Montrul, Silvina.“Psych verbs in second language acquisition”
1998. with Juffs, Allan. “Constraints on Wh-Movement in two different contexts of nonnative language acquisition: competence and processing”.
1997. And Others. The Researcher Gave the Subject a Test about Himself: Problems of Ambiguity and Preference in the Investigation of Reflexive Binding.
1996. with Genesee, Fred. How Native Is Near-Native? The Issue of Ultimate Attainment in Adult Second Language Acquisition.
1996. with Grondin, Nathalie. Functional Categories in Child L2 Acquisition of French.
1995. “Input, Triggers, and Second language acquisition: Can binding be taught?”.
1993. with Trahey, Martha. Positive Evidence and Preemption in the Second Language Classroom.
1992. On Triggering Data in L2 Acquisition: A Reply to Schwartz and Gubala-Ryzak.
1991. Adverb Placement in Second Language Acquisition: Some Effects of Positive and Negative Evidence in the Classroom.
1991. with Spada, Nina; Lightbown, Patsy M. & Anta, Leila. Input Enhancement and L2 Question Formation
1990. The Verb-Movement Parameter in Second Language Acquisition
1990. Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar.
1989. Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition. Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
1989. Linguistic Universals, Markedness and Learnability: Comparing Two Different Approaches.
1987. Markedness and Second Language Acquisition: The Question of Transfer.
1987. Against Comprehensible Input: the Input Hypothesis and the Development of Second-language Competence
1987. with Lightbown, Patsy M. The Influence of Linguistic Theories on Language Acquisition Research: Description and Explanation.
1986. “Markedness and Parameter Setting: some implications for a theory of adult second language acquisition”.
1985. Is There a “Logical Problem” of Second Language Acquisition?
1985. The “Pro-Drop” Parameter in Adult Second Language Acquisition.
1983. The “Pro-Drop” Parameter in Adult Second Language Acquisition.
1977. Is It Possible to Do All Semantic Interpretation Off Surface Structure? Montreal Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 8.
1977. Error Analysis and Error Correction in Adult Learners of English as a Second Language. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 13.
1971. Impact: World Development in British Education. with Prevost, Philippe. “Accounting for morphological variation in second language acquisition: truncation or missing inflection?”.