Bonnie D. Schwartz, University of Hawai‘i (October 2010)
Curriculum Vitae
BONNIE DALE SCHWARTZ
Department of Second Language Studies
University of Hawai‘i
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
phone: (808) 956 4916
e mail: bds@hawaii.edu
Fax: (808) 956 2802
EDUCATION
1982 - 87
Ph.D.,
Linguistics.
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California
1979 - 82
M.A.,
Linguistics.
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California
1977 - 78
Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes, France
Indiana University CIEE Overseas
Study Program
1975 - 79
B.A., French
and Outside Field of Interest in Business Administration.
Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana (High Distinction)
DISSERTATION
The Modular Basis
of Second Language Acquisition
Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Krashen
EXPERIENCE
2008
Affiliate,
Department of
Linguistics
University of Maryland, College Park (autumn
term)
2008
Visiting Professor,
Centre for
Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS)
Newcastle University, England
(spring and
summer terms)
2006 - present Core
faculty member (Professor), Department of Linguistics
University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
2003 - present Professor, Department of
Second Language Studies
University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
2002 - present Honorary
Reader, School of Linguistics and Language
University of Durham
2002 - 03
Associate
Professor, Department of Second Language Studies
University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
1998 - 99
Visiting
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland, College
Park (autumn and spring terms)
1996 - 01
Reader,
Department of Linguistics and English Language
University of Durham
1995
Visiting
Scientist, Department of
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (autumn term)
1992 - 96
Lecturer,
Department of Linguistics and English Language
University of Durham
1992 - 93
Researcher,
The LEXLERN Project (Prof. Harald Clahsen, director)
Universität
Düsseldorf (summers)
1989 - 92
Assistant
Professor, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Program in
Applied Linguistics
Boston University
1988 - 89
Assistante
Suppléante (Visiting Lecturer [in Linguistics]), Department
of English
University of Geneva
1987 - 88
Assistante
Bénévole (Visiting Scholar), Department of
General Linguistics
University of Geneva
1982 - 84
Coordinator
for Assistant Lecturers, nonnative English sections, Freshman
Writing Program
University of Southern California
1980
Instructor,
English as a Foreign
Language, American Language Institute
University of Southern
California (summer)
1979 - 86
Assistant
Lecturer, Freshman Writing Program
University of Southern California
PUBLICATIONS
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Under revision Schwartz, B.D. "The
morphological problem in Interlanguage."
2009
Schwartz, B.D. "Unraveling
inflection in child L2 development." Language,
Interaction and
Acquisition 1.1: 63-88.
2009
Song, H.S. & B.D.
Schwartz.
"Testing the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis: L2 adult, L2 child, and
L1 child comparisons in the acquisition of
Korean wh-constructions
with
Negative Polarity Items." Studies in
Second Language Acquisition 31.2:
323-361.
2007
Schwartz, B.D. "The L2 child as
arbitrator." Studies in Language
Sciences 6: 3-30.
2006
Schwartz, B.D. "What's left in
early
L2 architecture." Second Language
5: 3-26.
2004
Schwartz, B.D. "On child L2
development of syntax and morphology." Lingue e Linguaggio 3.1: 97-132.
2004
Parodi, T., B.D. Schwartz &
H. Clahsen. "On the L2 acquisition of the morphosyntax of German
nominals." Linguistics 42.3:
669-705.
2002
Whong-Barr, M. & B.D.
Schwartz. "Morphological and syntactic transfer in child L2 acquisition
of the English dative alternation." Studies
in
Second Language
Acquisition
24.4: 579-616.
1999
Schwartz, B.D. "Let's make up
your
mind: 'Special nativist' perspectives on language, modularity of mind,
and nonnative language acquisition."
Studies in Second
Language
Acquisition 21.4: 635-55. [One of two invited articles
(the
other by William O'Grady) on "Nativism," for the
Point-Counterpoint
rubric]
1998
Schwartz, B.D. "The second
language
instinct." Lingua 106:
133-60. [This special issue of Lingua
is also published 1999 as A. Sorace,
C. Heycock & R. Shillcock
(eds.) Language Acquisition:
Knowledge, Representation and Processing.
Amsterdam: Elsevier]
1997
Lardiere, D. & B.D.
Schwartz. "Feature-marking in the L2 development of deverbal
compounds." Journal of Linguistics
33.2: 327-53.
1996
Schwartz, B.D. & R.A.
Sprouse. "L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model."
Second Language Research 12.1:
40-72.
1993
Schwartz, B.D. "On explicit and
negative data effecting and affecting competence
and linguistic
behavior." Studies in Second
Language
Acquisition 15.2:
147-63.
1992
Schwartz, B.D. "Testing between
UG-based and problem-solving models of L2A: Developmental sequence
data."
Language Acquisition 2.1: 1-19.
1992
Schwartz, B.D. & M.
Gubala-Ryzak. "Learnability and grammar re-organization in L2A: Against
negative evidence causing the unlearning of verb
movement." Second
Language Research 8.1: 1-38.
1990
Tomaselli, A. & B.D.
Schwartz. "Analysing the acquisition stages of negation in L2 German:
Support for UG in adult SLA." Second
Language
Research
6.1: 1-38.
1989
Schwartz, B.D. & S. Vikner.
"All verb second clauses are CPs." Working
Papers in Scandinavian
Syntax 43: 27-49.
1988
Schwartz, B.D. "A reply to Gregg:
In
defence of theory building." Second
Language Research 4.2: 157-73.
1986
Schwartz, B.D. "The
epistemological
status of second language acquisition." Second Language Research 2.2:
120-59.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
In progress
Schwartz, B.D., J.H. Ma
& J.-H. Kim. "What's an island for L2 adults, L2 children and
L1 youths?" In M. Becker, J. Grinstead, J. Rothman &
B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative Linguistics
and Acquisition: Studies in
Honor of Nina M. Hyams. Philadelphia: Benjamins. (to be
refereed)
In progress Schwartz,
B.D & R.A.
Sprouse. "The logical problem of language acquisition." In J.
Herschensohn & M. Young-Scholten (eds.)
Handbook of
Second Language
Acquisition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (to be refereed)
2007
Schwartz, B.D. & R.A.
Sprouse. "Linear sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical
structures in L2 acquisition? A reply to Meisel (1997)."
In S. Karimi, V. Samiian
& W. Wilkins (eds.) Clausal and
Phrasal
Architecture: Syntactic Derivation and Interpretation.
Philadelphia:
Benjamins.
pp. 295-318. (refereed)
2006
Schwartz, B.D. "Transfer as
bootstrapping." In C. Lefebvre, L. White & C. Jourdan (eds.) L2
Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues.
Philadelphia: Benjamins. pp.
183-204. (refereed)
2005
Dekydtspotter, L., B.D. Schwartz,
R.A. Sprouse & A. Liljestrand. "Evidence for the C-domain in
early Interlanguage." In S.H. Foster-Cohen,
M. García Mayo & J. Cenoz
(eds.) EuroSLA Yearbook.
Philadelphia: Benjamins.
pp. 7-34. (refereed)
2003
Schwartz, B.D., L. Dekydtspotter
& R.A. Sprouse. "Putting out fire with gasoline: What the L2
acquisition of argument structure tells us about L2
epistemology." In
L. O. Delsing, C. Falk, G. Josefsson & H. Sigurdsson (eds.) Grammar
in Focus:
Festschrift for Christer Platzack, Vol. 2. Lund:
Wallin and Dalholm.
pp. 305-13.
2000
Schwartz, B.D. & R.A.
Sprouse. "When syntactic theories evolve: Consequences for L2
acquisition research." In J. Archibald (ed.) Second
Language Acquisition and
Linguistic Theory. Oxford:
Blackwell. pp. 156-86. (refereed)
1999
Schwartz, B.D. "The second
language
instinct." In A. Sorace, C. Heycock & R. Shillcock (eds.)
Language Acquisition: Knowledge,
Representation
and Processing.
Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 133-60. [This volume is also
published 1998 as a special issue of Lingua]
(refereed)
1999
Schwartz, B.D. "Some specs on
Specs
in L2 acquisition." In D. Adger, S. Pintzuk, B. Plunkett & G.
Tsoulas (eds.) Specifiers: Minimalist
Approaches.
Oxford: Oxford
University Press. pp. 299-337. (refereed)
1998
Schwartz, B.D. "On two hypotheses
of
'Transfer' in L2A: Minimal Trees and Absolute L1 Influence." In S.
Flynn, G. Martohardjono & W. O'Neil
(eds.) The
Generative Study
of Second Language Acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
pp.
35-59. (refereed)
1996
Schwartz, B.D. "Parameters in
nonnative language acquisition." In P. Jordens & J. Lalleman
(eds.) Investigating Second Language
Acquisition.
New York: Mouton de
Gruyter. pp. 211-35. (refereed)
1996
Schwartz, B.D. & L. Eubank.
"What is the L2 initial state? Introduction." Second Language Research
12.1: 1-5.
1996
Schwartz, B.D. & S. Vikner.
"The verb always leaves IP in V2 clauses." In A. Belletti & L.
Rizzi (eds.) Parameters and
Functional Heads: Essays
in Comparative
Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 11-62.
(refereed)
1995
Beck, M., B.D. Schwartz & L.
Eubank. "Data, evidence and rules." In L. Eubank, L. Selinker & M.
Sharwood Smith (eds.) The Current
State of
Interlanguage.
Philadelphia:
Benjamins. pp. 177-95. (refereed)
1994
Hoekstra, T. & B.D.
Schwartz. "Introduction: On the initial states of language
acquisition." In T. Hoekstra & B.D. Schwartz (eds.). pp. 1 19.
1994
Schwartz, B.D. & R.A.
Sprouse. "Word order and Nominative Case in non-native language
acquisition: A longitudinal study of (L1 Turkish)
German Interlanguage." In T. Hoekstra & B.D.
Schwartz
(eds.). pp. 317-68. (refereed)
1991
Schwartz, B.D. "Conceptual and
empirical evidence: A response to Meisel." In L. Eubank (ed.) Point-Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in
the
Second Language.
Philadelphia: Benjamins. pp. 277-304. (refereed)
1990
Schwartz, B.D. & A.
Tomaselli. "Some implications from an analysis of German word order."
In W. Abraham, W. Kosmeijer & E. Reuland (eds.)
Issues in
Germanic
Syntax. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 251-74. (refereed)
VOLUMES EDITED
In progress
Becker, M., J. Grinstead, J.
Rothman & B.D. Schwartz (eds.) Generative
Linguistics and
Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams.
Philadelphia: Benjamins. (to be
refereed)
2006
Deen, K.U., J. Nomura, B. Schulz
& B.D. Schwartz (eds.). The
Proceedings of the Inaugural
Conference on Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition––North
America, Honolulu,
University of
Connecticut Occasional Papers in Linguistics 4.
1996
Eubank, L. & B.D. Schwartz
(eds.). What is the L2 Initial State?
Special thematic issue of Second
Language Research 12.1. (refereed volume)
1994
Hoekstra, T. & B.D. Schwartz
(eds.). Language Acquisition Studies
in Generative Grammar: Papers in
Honor of Kenneth Wexler from the 1991
GLOW Workshops.
Philadelphia:
Benjamins. (refereed volume)
1994
McClure, W.T., B.D. Schwartz
& I.-M. Tsimpli (eds.). Newcastle
and Durham Working Papers in
Linguistics 2. (refereed volume)
COMMENTARIES
In press
Schwartz, B.D.
"Parsing up the
Interface Hypothesis." Linguistic
Approaches to Bilingualism 1.1.
[invited commentary on keynote article]
1998
Schwartz, B.D. "On the
'wrong-headedness' of generative entrenchment." Bilingualism: Language and
Cognition 1.1: 34-35. [invited commentary
on keynote
article] (refereed)
1997
Schwartz, B.D. "On the basis of
the
Basic Variety ...." Second Language
Research 13.4: 386-402.
[invited commentary on target article] (refereed)
1996
Schwartz, B.D. "Now for some
facts,
with a focus on development and an explicit role for the L1."
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
19.4: 739-40.
[commentary on
target article] (accepted on the basis of refereed abstract)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND WORKING
PAPERS
2010
Wen, Z., M. Miyao, A. Takeda, W.
Chu
& B.D. Schwartz. "Proficiency effects and distance effects in
nonnative processing of English number
agreement." In K.
Franich, K.
Iserman & L. Keil (eds.) Proceedings
of the 34th Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development,
Vol. 2.
Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Press. pp. 445-56. (accepted on the basis of
refereed abstract)
2007
Schwartz, B.D. "L2 postcards from
the edge." In E. Agathopoulou, M. Dimitrakopoulou & D. Papadopoulou
(eds.) 17th International Symposium:
Selected Papers
on
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Thessaloniki: Aristotle
University
of Thessaloniki. pp. 304-22. (written version of
invited
plenary presentation, refereed)
2006
Bullock, G., A. Omaki, B. Schulz,
B.D. Schwartz & A. Tremblay. "Where do L2ers attach
interclausal adverbials?" In A. Belletti, E. Bennati,
C. Chesi, E. Di
Domenico & I. Ferrari (eds.) Language
Acquisition and
Development: Proceedings of GALA2005. Cambridge: Cambridge
Scholars
Publishing. pp.
82-95. (refereed)
2006
Dekydtspotter, L., B.D. Schwartz
& R.A. Sprouse. "The Comparative Fallacy in L2 processing
research." In M.G. O'Brien, C. Shea & J. Archibald
(eds.)
Proceedings of the 8th Generative
Approaches to Second Language
Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Proceedings
Project. pp. 33-40. Website: http://www.lingref.com,
document #1485. (accepted on the basis of refereed abstract)
2005
Chu, W. & B.D. Schwartz.
"Another look at 'verb raising' in the L2 English of Chinese speakers."
In L. Dekydtspotter, R.A. Sprouse &
A. Liljestrand (eds.)
Proceedings of the 7th Generative
Approaches to Second Language
Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2004). Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Proceedings
Project. pp. 68-85. Website: http://www.lingref.com,
document #1157. (accepted on the basis of refereed abstract)
2004
Schwartz, B.D. "Why child L2
acquisition?" In J. van Kampen & S. Baauw (eds.) Proceedings of
GALA 2003, Vol. 1. Utrecht: Netherlands
Graduate School of Linguistics
(LOT). pp. 47-66. (written version of invited plenary presentation)
2003
Schwartz, B.D. "Child L2
acquisition: Paving the way." In B. Beachley, A. Brown & F.
Conlin (eds.) Proceedings of the
27th Annual Boston
University
Conference on Language Development, Vol. 1. Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla
Press. pp. 26-50. (written version of invited plenary
presentation)
2003
Schwartz, B.D., L. Dekydtspotter
& R.A. Sprouse. "Pouring the fire with gasoline: Questioning
conclusions on L2 argument structure." In
J.M. Liceras, H. Zobl
& H. Goodluck (eds.) Proceedings
of the 6th Generative
Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA
2002): L2
Links. Somerville,
MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. pp. 248-59.
Website: http://www.lingref.com, document #1050. (accepted on
the basis of refereed abstract)
2002
Hopp, H. & B.D. Schwartz.
"Case, (re-)set, match: Functional features in the L2 German nominal
domain." In J. Costa & M.J. Freitas (eds.)
Proceedings of
the
GALA 2001 Conference on Language Acquisition. Lisbon:
Associação Portuguesa de Linguística.
pp. 112-20. (accepted on the
basis of
refereed abstract)
2002
Schwartz, B.D. & R.A.
Sprouse. "Parallels across L1 acquisition and child L2 acquisition:
Truncation does not suffice." In H. Marsden, S. Pourcel
& M.
Whong-Barr (eds.) Durham Working
Papers in Linguistics 8: 139-52.
(refereed)
2001
Whong-Barr, M. & B.D.
Schwartz. "Morphological transfer effects in child L2 acquisition of
English double object datives." In A.H.-J. Do,
M. Hughes, L.
Domínguez & A. Johansen (eds.) Proceedings of the
25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.
2.
Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 803-14.
(accepted on
the basis of refereed abstract)
2000
Schwartz, B.D. & R.A.
Sprouse. "Back to Basics in generative second language acquisition
research." In M. Akita & K. Oga (eds.) Newcastle and
Durham
Working Papers in Linguistics 6: 123-34. (refereed)
2000
Schwartz, B.D. & R.A.
Sprouse. "The use and abuse of linguistic theory in L2 acquisition
research." In A. Juffs, T. Talpas, G. Mizera & B. Burtt
(eds.) University
of
Pittsburgh Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of
GASLA IV. pp. 176-87. (accepted on the basis of refereed
abstract)
2000
Whong-Barr, M. & B.D.
Schwartz. "Japanese and Korean children's L2 acquisition of the English
dative alternation." In Y. Otsu (ed.) The
Proceedings of
the First
Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. pp.
181-200. (accepted on the basis of refereed abstract).
1999
Schwartz, B.D. "'Transfer' and L2
acquisition of syntax: Where are we now? ('Transfer': Maligned,
realigned, reconsidered, redefined)." In K. Oga
& G. Poole
(eds.) Newcastle and Durham Working
Papers in Linguistics 5: 211-34.
1998
Schwartz, B.D. & R.A.
Sprouse. "Back to Basics in generative second language acquisition
research." In Essays in Celebration
of Noam Chomsky's
70th Birthday (7
December 1998). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Website:
http://cognet.mit.edu/Books/celebration/ [Also published as
1998 in UG
Access in L2
Acquisition:
Reassessing the Question (NFLRC
NetWork #9). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i, Second Language
Teaching &
Curriculum Center. Website:
http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/nflrc/NetWorks/NW9/]. 13 pages.
1998
Sprouse, R.A. & B.D.
Schwartz. "In defense of Full Transfer in German English and French
English Interlanguage: Comparative L2 acquisition
research." In A.
Greenhill, M. Hughes, H. Littlefield & H. Walsh (eds.) Proceedings
of the 22nd Annual Boston University
Conference on
Language Development, Vol.
2. Somerville,
MA: Cascadilla
Press. pp. 726-36. (accepted on the basis of refereed
abstract)
1997
Haznedar, B. & B.D.
Schwartz. "Are there Optional Infinitives in child L2 acquisition?" In
E. Hughes, M. Hughes & A. Greenhill (eds.)
Proceedings of the
21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.
1. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 257-68.
(accepted
on the basis of refereed abstract)
1997
Parodi, T., B.D. Schwartz &
H. Clahsen. "On the L2 acquisition of the morphosyntax of German
nominals." Essex Research Reports in
Linguistics
15: 1-43.
1995
Lardiere, D. & B.D.
Schwartz. "On the L2 acquisition of deverbal compounds: Evidence for
agreement." In D. MacLaughlin & S. McEwen (eds.)
Proceedings of
the 19th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,
Vol. 1. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 335-47.
(accepted on the basis of
refereed abstract)
1994
Schwartz, B.D. "L2 knowledge:
What
is the null hypothesis?" In W.T. McClure, B.D. Schwartz & I.-M.
Tsimpli (eds.). pp. 145-54. (refereed)
1993
Schwartz, B.D. "An alternative
account of apparent inaccessibility to UG in L2A." In I.-M. Tsimpli
(ed.) Newcastle and Durham Working
Papers
in Linguistics
1:
240-50. (refereed)
1990
Schwartz, B.D. "Un-motivating the
motivation for the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis." In H. Burmeister
& P. Rounds (eds.) Variability in
Second Language
Acquisition. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon. pp. 667-84.
(accepted on the basis of refereed abstract)
1985
Schwartz, B.D. "Case and
conjunction." In G. Gilligan, M. Mohammad & I. Roberts (eds.)
Studies in Syntax: Southern
California Occasional
Papers in Linguistics
10: 161-86. (refereed)
WORK UNDERWAY
In preparation Dekydtspotter, L., B.D.
Schwartz, R.A. Sprouse & G. Bullock. "Disentangling lexical
semantics, syntax and pragmatics in L2 acquisition."
In preparation Schwartz, B.D. "Certainly
not the last word on L2 acquisition...."
In preparation Schwartz, B.D. "Full
Transfer/Full Access/Full Parse." In P. Robinson (ed.) The Routledge
Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition. New
York: Routledge.
In preparation Schwartz, B.D. "Second
language acquisition." In I. Roberts (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of
Universal Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
In preparation Wen, Z., M. Miyao, A.
Takeda, W. Chu & B.D. Schwartz. "Linear distance vs. structural
distance and in nonnative processing of number
agreement in English."
AWARDS/HONORS
2010
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Grant, National Science Foundation
"Chinese
sentence processing by first and second language speakers"
1 July 2010
– 30 June 2012
(Co-PI with Z.
Wen)
Amount: $11,999
2010
Excellence in Teaching award
(2009-2010)
College of
Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of
Hawai‘i
2010
Summer Research Grant, The UH
Endowment for the Humanities, University of Hawai‘i
"The L2 child
is key: On the development of Japanese by L1 English-speaking children"
4 May 2010
– 3 May 2011
Amount: $4,999
2008
University Research Office
Professorship Fund, Newcastle University, England
"Funds toward
a Visiting Professorship"
13 May 2008
– 13 August 2008
Amount:
£2,250 (= $4,500)
2006
Festschrift: S. Unsworth, T.
Parodi,
A. Sorace & M. Young-Scholten (eds.), 2006. Paths of
Development in L1 and L2 Acquisition: In Honor of
Bonnie D. Schwartz.
Philadelphia: Benjamins.
2005
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Grant, National Science Foundation
"Wh-scope
marking in English interlanguage grammars –
Transfer and processing effects on the second language acquisition of
English complex
questions"
15 June 2005
– 30 November 2006
(Co-PI with B.
Schulz)
Amount: $11,995
2005
Summer Research Grant, The UH
Endowment for the Humanities, University of Hawai‘i
"The interplay
between knowledge and processing in early Interlanguage"
10 May 2005
– 9 May 2006
Amount: $2,836
2004
Conference Grant, National
Science
Foundation
"Inaugural
conference of Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition––North America"
1 March 2004
– 28 February 2005
(Co-PI with
K.U. Deen)
Amount: $25,000
2004
Research Grant, Special Funding
for
Scholarly and Creative Works, University of Hawai‘i
"Summer GA
support for noteworthy professional activities: GALANA 2004"
Amount: $4,635
2002
Research Grant, Japan Foundation
Endowment Committee
"Second
language acquisition of the syntax and semantics of
quantification in Japanese"
(with A.
Holmberg, for H. Marsden to conduct her Ph.D. research in
Japan)
Amount:
£1,870 (= $2,805)
2001
Overseas Conference Grant, The
British Academy
"Linear
sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in
L2 acquisition?"
Amount:
£600 (= $900)
1998
Research Leave Award, Arts and
Humanities Research Board
"Asymmetric
acquisition"
Amount:
£12,660.08 (= $18,990.12)
1997
Overseas Conference Grant, The
British Academy
"L1 and UG: A
Dutch treat"
Amount:
£500 (= $750)
1994
Research and Initiative Grant
(Special Research Projects Fund), University of Durham
"Data
collection of Adult
and Child Crosslinguistic English Second
Syntax (ACCESS)"
(Co-PI with M.
Young-Scholten)
Amount:
£10,000 (= $15,000)
1993
Research and Initiative Grant
(Special Research Projects Fund), University of Durham
"Conference on
language acquisition ('Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition') hosted by the University of Durham"
(Co-PI with
J.E. Emonds and M. Young-Scholten)
Amount:
£3,500 (= $5,250)
1993
Research and Initiative Grant
(Special Research Projects Fund), University of Durham
"Language
Centre scheme for attracting postgraduates (priority
employment to Durham Linguistics Ph.D. students)"
(Co-PI with
J.E. Emonds)
Amount: c.
£23,000 (= c. $34,500)
1992
Research and Initiative Grant
(Equipment/Special Book Purchase), University of Durham
"Research
program for advanced degrees in theoretical and applied
linguistics"
(Co-PI with
J.E. Emonds)
Amount:
£6,000 (= $9,000)
1990
Special Summer Term Research
Grant
Support, Boston University
"The roles of
positive, negative and explicit data in second language
grammar development"
Amount:
£1,000 (= $1,500)
1989
Visiting Scholar Fellowship,
Institutionen för Nordiska Språk, Lunds Universitet,
Lund, Sweden
1975 - 79
Merit
Scholarship (4 years)
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Eta Sigma
Honorary
INVITED ADDRESSES
2009
Invited Speaker, "Proficiency and
complexity in the L2 processing of number agreement in English DPs"
Second
Workshop on the Acquisition and Processing of the DP
University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, England. 21 December
(with Z. Wen,
M. Miyao, A. Takeda, Y.-J. Shiung & W. Chu)
2009
Invited Plenary Speaker, "Let's
go
on a Hawaiian tour (of child L2 acquisition)"
Second
Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI. 31 October
2009
Invited Plenary Speaker, "The
morphological problem"
The Mind-Context Divide: Language Acquisition and
Interfaces of
Cognitive-Linguistic Modules
University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA. 30 April
2009
Invited Keynote Speaker,
"Computing
L2 morphosyntax"
Morphological
Form and Syntactic Function: The Syntax-Morphology
Interface in Child and Adult Second Language Acquisition
31st Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenscahft (DGfS,
German Linguistics Society)
Osnabrück, Germany. 4 March
2008
Invited Plenary Speaker, "Island
sensitivity in development: L2 adults, L2 children and L1 youths"
The 3rd
Newcastle Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied
Linguistics
Newcastle
University, Newcastle, England. 9 July
(with J.H. Ma
& J.-H. Kim)
2008
Invited Speaker, "Island
sensitivity
in development: A perspective from L2 adults, L2 children and L1 youths"
MayFest
University of
Maryland, College Park, MD. 10 May
(with J.H. Ma
& J.-H. Kim)
2006
Invited Keynote Speaker,
"Developmental puzzles in child L2 (vs. child L1 vs. adult L2)
morphosyntax"
The 11th
Contemporary Linguistics Conference
Institute of
Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,
Tianjin Normal University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Tianjin, China. 13 October
2006
Invited Plenary Speaker,
"Illuminating child L2 developmental puzzles"
Generative
Approaches to Language
Acquisition––North America (GALANA)
McGill
University, Montréal, Canada. 17 August
2006
Invited Plenary Speaker,
"Developmental puzzles in child L2 (vs. child L1 vs. adult L2)
morphosyntax"
Pacific Second
Language Research Forum (PacSLRF)
University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 4 July
2005
Invited Keynote Speaker, "To be
acquired"
Variation in
Inflection Workshop
Meertens
Institute and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. 20 December
2005
Invited Discussant, "On 'issues
of
interfaces' by Tsimpli & Papadopoulou"
Early Child
Bilingualism Workshop
Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. 17 December
2005
Invited Plenary Speaker, "What's
left in early L2 architecture"
Japanese
Second Language Association (J-SLA)
Kwansei Gakuin
University, Osaka, Japan. 15 May
2005
Invited Plenary Speaker, "L2
postcards from the edge"
17th
International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
16 April
2004
Invited Speaker, "Transfer as
bootstrapping"
Montreal
Dialogues: Processes in L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis
Université du Québec à
Montréal, Montréal, Canada. 29 August
2004
Invited Keynote Speaker, "The L2
child as arbitrator"
Japan Society
for Linguistic Sciences (JSLS)
Aichi
Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan. 16 July
2003
Invited Speaker, "Why child L2
acquisition?"
Generative
Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
Workshop on
Child L2 Acquisition: Child or L2 Acquisition? Or
Neither?
Utrecht
University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 4 September
2003
Invited Speaker, "Certainly not
the
last word on L2 acquisition"
Conference on
Knowledge of a Second Language—Epistemological
and Empirical Issues
University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 3 May
2002
Invited Speaker, "Asymmetric
(adult)
L2 acquisition: Syntax and inflectional morphology"
Workshop on
New Perspectives in Applied Linguistics: The Acquisition of
Grammatical Competence in Psycholinguistics and Neuroscience
Università di Verona, Verona, Italy. 13
December
2002
Invited Plenary Speaker, "Child
L2
acquisition: Paving the way"
Boston
University Conference on Language Development
Boston
University, Boston, MA. 2 November
2000
Invited Speaker, "The L1 = L2
Hypothesis revisited"
Research
Training Workshop
Second
Language Acquisition and Language Teaching
North-West
Centre for Linguistics, Salford, England. 9 April
1998
Invited Colloquium Speaker, "Back
to
Basics"
Second
Language Research Forum (SLRF)
UG Access in
L2 Acquisition: Reassessing the Question
University of
Hawai‘i, Manoa, Honolulu, HI. 17
October
1998
Invited Respondent, "My cup of
tea"
Workshop on
Discourse Contexts of Syntactic Structures
Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research//Centre National de
Recherches Scientifiques
Paris,
France. 9 September
1998
Invited Speaker, "Native and
nonnative acquisition of deverbal compounding in English"
Les Ateliers
en Morphologie//Workshops in Morphology
Centre
International des Langues, Université de Nantes,
Nantes, France. 7 September
(with D.
Lardiere)
1998
Invited Plenary Speaker,
"'UG-compatible' L2 data: All that glitters is not gold"
The First
Durham Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied
Linguistics
University of
Durham, Durham, England. 13 June
1998
Invited Symposium Speaker, "L1
and
UG: A Dutch treat"
Pacific Second
Language Research Forum (PacSLRF)
Recent
Developments in SLA Research in Generative Grammar
Aoyama Gakuin
University, Tokyo, Japan. 28 March
1997
Invited Plenoquium Speaker,
"Generative grammar's mind map: More than shades of grey (matter)"
Second
Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Second
Language Acquisition and Theories of Mind
Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI. 19 October
1997
Invited Plenary Speaker, "The
second
language instinct"
Language
Acquisition: Knowledge, Representation and Processing (GALA)
University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. 4 April
1996
Invited Speaker, "Recent syntax
applied to L2A: Resolving some puzzles, creating others"
Workshop on
Second Language Acquisition
University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, England. 30 April
1996
Invited Plenary Speaker, "Some
specs
on Specs in L2 acquisition"
Specifiers
Conference
University of
York, York, England. 22 March
1996
Invited Speaker, "Knowledge of L2
syntax: What is it? What are its sources?"
Language and
Cognition Workshop
University of
Salford, Salford, England. 12 January
1995
Invited Plenary Speaker,
"'Transfer'
and L2 acquisition of syntax: Where are we now?"
Second
Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY. 1 October
1994
Invited Speaker, "Agreement in
L2A
and the criterion of 'correct' overt manifestation"
Generative
Studies of the Acquisition of Case and Agreement
University of
Essex, Colchester, England. 20 March
(with D.
Lardiere)
1993
Invited Speaker, "Second language
acquisition and 'correction'"
Scottish
Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
(SATEFL)
Edinburgh,
Scotland. 13 March
1991
Invited Speaker, "On explicit and
negative evidence affecting and effecting competence and performance"
Concordia
McGill Colloquium on the Role of Instruction in Second
Language Acquisition
Montréal, Canada. 8-11 July
1989
Invited Respondent, "A response
to
Meisel: Conceptual and empirical evidence"
Second
Language Research Forum (SLRF):
University of
California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 26
February
INVITED TEACHING
2009
Invited Lecturer (series of 5
lectures plus one workshop)
"Child L2
Acquisition"
1st
International Summer School on Generative Studies in Second
Language Acquisition (GESSLA)
University of
Cologne
Cologne,
Germany. 27 July - 7 August
2008
Invited Lecturer (series of 5
lectures plus one workshop)
"Age-dependent
effects in nonnative language acquisition"
Centre for
Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS)
Newcastle
University
Newcastle,
England. 16-25 June
2006
Invited Lecturer (series of 5
lectures)
"L2
morphosyntax: Age-dependent effects"
Australian
Linguistics Institute
University of Queensland
Brisbane,
Australia. 10-14 July
2004
Invited Lecturer (series of 9
lectures plus one workshop)
"Second
language acquisition"
Keio University
Tokyo,
Japan. 21-24 July
2004
Invited Lecturer
"Comparing
adult and child second language acquisition"
Linguistics
Department, University of California, Los Angeles
Honolulu–Los Angeles video conference.
17 February
2002
Invited Lecturer (series of 5
lectures)
"Issues in age-dependent effects in L2 morphosyntax"
Landelijke
Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap ("LOT") Netherlands Graduate
School of Linguistics Summer Course
Nijmegen, The
Netherlands. 10-14 June
2000
Invited Lecturer
"An
introduction to a generative perspective on L2 acquisition: Some
theoretical issues"
Institute of
Cultural and Linguistics Studies, Keio University
Tokyo,
Japan. 26 March
1999
Invited Lecturer (series of 5
lectures)
"L2 syntax:
Determining developmental route from the L2 initial state"
Ph.D. Course
on Second Language Acquisition
Departamento
de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Universidad del
País Vasco
Vitoria,
Spain. 13-15 October
1998
Invited Lecturer (2 lectures)
Workshop and
Seminar on Transfer in Second Language Acquisition
Departments of
Linguistics and of Nordiska Språk, Lunds
Universitet
Lund,
Sweden. 25-27 February
1996
Invited Lecturer (series of 5
lectures)
"Course on
second language acquisition research and syntax"
Center for
Language Studies, Tilburg University
Tilburg, The
Netherlands. 18-22 November
1991
Invited Lecturer
"Parameters in
nonnative language acquisition"
Algemene
Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap ("AVT") Summer Course on Second
Language Acquisition
Leiden, The
Netherlands. 17-21 June
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
2010
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"L2 processing
of (number) agreement: More than just linearity"
University of
Maryland, College Park, MD. 17 October
(with Z. Wen,
M. Miyao, W. Chu & A. Takeda)
2010
Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition–North America (GALANA):
"Does linear
distance explain L2 (in)sensitivity to agreement
violations in online processing?"
University of
Toronto, Toronto, ON. 1 September
(with Z. Wen, M. Miyao, A. Takeda & W. Chu)
2009
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"Proficiency
effects in nonnative processing of number agreement in
English"
Boston,
MA. 6 November (with Z. Wen, M. Miyao, A.
Takeda, Y.-J. Shiung & W. Chu)
2009
Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition (GALA):
"Dissociations
between knowledge and performance in non-natives'
processing of number agreement in English?"
Lisbon,
Portugal. 10 September (with Z. Wen, M.
Miyao, A. Takeda, Y.-J. Shiung & W. Chu)
2009
Second Language Processing and
Parsing: State of the Science:
"L2
sensitivity to online number disagreement"
Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX. 22 May
(with Z. Wen,
M. Miyao, A. Takeda, Y.-J. Shiung & W. Chu)
2009
The CUNY Conference on Human
Sentence Processing:
"Nonnatives'
knowledge and processing of number agreement in English"
University of
California, Davis, Davis, CA. 27 March
(with Z. Wen,
M. Miyao, A. Takeda, Y.-J. Shiung & W. Chu)
2008
18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics
Conference (JK18):
"On the L1
acquisition of Korean wh-constructions
with Negative
Polarity Items"
The City
University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY. 13
November (with H.S. Song)
2008
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"On knowledge
and processing of grammatical number by nonnatives"
University of
Hawai‘i, Honolulu, HI. 18 October
(with Z. Wen,
M. Miyao, W. Chu, Y.-J. Shiung & A. Takeda)
2007
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"Korean wh-constructions
with Negative
Polarity Items: L1 child, L2
child and L2 adult comparisons vis-à-vis development and
convergence"
Boston,
MA. 2 November (with H.S. Song)
2007
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"Rethinking
Johnson & Newport (1991)"
Boston,
MA. 2 November (with J.H. Ma & J.-H. Kim)
2007
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"The status of
subjacency in L2 children, L2 adults & L1
children: Revisiting Johnson & Newport (1991)"
University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. 12
October (with J.H. Ma & J.-H. Kim)
2007
The 17th Annual Conference of the
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA):
"On detailed
morphological analysis in L2 sentence processing"
Newcastle
University, Newcastle, England. 12 September
(with L.
Dekydtspotter, R.A. Sprouse & Z. Wen, W. Chu, M.
Miyao, C. Renaud &Y.-J. Shiung)
2007
Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition (GALA):
"Korean
intervention effects in L1 children and in (L1 English) L2
children and L2 adults"
Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain. 7 September (with H.S. Song)
2007
Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition (GASLA):
"On the
acquisition of Korean wh-constructions
with negative polarity
items: L1 child, L2 child and L2 adult comparisons"
University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA. 19 May (with
H.S. Song)
2006
Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition (GASLA):
"The
Comparative Fallacy in L2 processing research"
Banff,
Alberta, Canada. 28 April (with L.
Dekydtspotter & R.A. Sprouse)
2006
Linguistic Society of America
(LSA):
"The use and
abuse of processing data in L2 acquisition research"
Albuquerque,
NM. 7 January (with L. Dekydtspotter
& R.A. Sprouse)
2005
Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition (GALA):
"Did they say
in Interlanguage that CP is missing, or did they say that
in Interlanguage CP is missing?"
University of
Siena, Siena, Italy. 9 September
(with G. Bullock, A. Omaki, B. Schulz & A. Tremblay)
2005
Japanese Second Language
Association
(J-SLA):
"On the
interaction of transfer and processing in (early) Interlanguage"
Kwansei Gakuin
University, Osaka, Japan. 14 May
(with G.
Bullock, A. Omaki, B. Schulz & A. Tremblay)
2005
Linguistic Society of America
(LSA):
"Prosody as a
confound in Interlanguage processing research"
Oakland,
CA. 6 January (with L. Dekydtspotter
& R.A. Sprouse)
2004
Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition–North America (GALANA):
"Second
language acquisition of partial movement in German: Evidence
for a UG-based approach to adult L2 acquisition"
University of
Hawai‘i, Honolulu, HI. 18
December (with V. Guérin)
2004
The 14th Annual Conference of the
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA):
"Evidence for
the C-domain in early Interlanguage"
University of
the Basque Country, San Sebástian,
Spain. 11 September
(with L.
Dekydtspotter & R.A. Sprouse)
2004
The 14th Annual Conference of the
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA):
"Revisiting
the development of verb placement in Chinese-English
Interlanguage"
University of
the Basque Country, San Sebástian,
Spain. 9 September (with W. Chu)
2004
Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition (GASLA):
"Another look
at 'verb raising' in the L2 English of Chinese speakers"
Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN. 17 April (with
W. Chu)
2004
Linguistic Society of America
(LSA):
"Is CP
'superfluous' in the initial L2 state?"
Boston,
MA. 10 January (with L. Dekydtspotter
& R.A. Sprouse)
2003
The 13th Annual Conference of the
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA):
"Form and
function in (adult) L2 acquisition: Disentangling lexical
semantics, syntax, and pragmatics"
University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. 20 September
(with L.
Dekydtspotter, R.A. Sprouse & G. Bullock)
2002
Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition (GASLA):
"Pouring the
fire with gasoline: Questioning conclusions on L2 argument
structure"
University of
Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 27 April
(with L. Dekydtspotter & R.A. Sprouse)
2002
Linguistic Society of America
(LSA):
"Pouring the
fire with gasoline: Questioning conclusions on L2 argument
structure"
San Francisco,
CA. 5 January (with L. Dekydtspotter
& R.A. Sprouse)
2001
Pacific Second Language Research
Forum (PacSLRF):
"Linear
sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in
L2 acquisition?"
University of
Hawai‘i, Honolulu, HI. 5
October (with R.A. Sprouse)
2001
Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition (GALA):
"Case, (re-)set, match: Functional features in the
L2 German nominal
domain"
Palmela,
Portugal. 16 September (with H. Hopp)
2001
Linguistic Society of America
(LSA):
"Linear
sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in
L2 acquisition? A reply to Meisel"
Washington,
DC. 7 January (with R.A. Sprouse)
2000
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"Morphological
transfer effects in child L2 acquisition of English
double-object datives"
Boston,
MA. 3 November (with M. Whong Barr)
2000
Linguistics Association of Great
Britain (LAGB):
"Distinct
developmental paths: A child L2 study of the English dative
alternation"
University
College London, London. 8 April (with M.
Whong Barr)
2000
Tokyo Conference on
Psycholinguistics:
"Japanese and
Korean children's L2 acquisition of the English dative
alternation"
Keio
University, Tokyo, Japan. 24 March (with M.
Whong Barr)
2000
Linguistic Society of America
(LSA):
"Parallels across L1 acquisition and child L2
acquisition:
Truncation
does not suffice"
Chicago,
IL. 8 January (with R.A. Sprouse)
1998
Mid-America Linguistics
Conference:
"The poverty
of the stimulus in second language acquisition"
Southern
Illinois University Carbondale/Edwardsville, Edwardsville,
IL. 23 October
(with R.A.
Sprouse)
1998
Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition (GASLA):
"The use and
abuse of linguistic theory in L2 acquisition research"
University of
Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA. 25 September
(with R.A.
Sprouse)
1998
The 8th Annual Conference of the
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA):
"The poverty
of the stimulus in L2 acquisition: Theoretical and
experimental issues"
The British
Institute in Paris, Paris, France. 10
September (with R.A. Sprouse)
1997
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"In defense of
Full Transfer in German-English and French-English
Interlanguage: Comparative L2 acquisition research"
Boston,
MA. 7 November (with R.A. Sprouse)
1997
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"Evidence for
Full Transfer in German-English Interlanguage"
Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI. 17
October (with R.A. Sprouse)
1997
The 7th Annual Conference of the
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA):
"Optional
Infinitives in L1 acquisition vs. Optional Uninflection in
child L2 acquisition"
Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. 23 May
(with B. Haznedar)
1997
Generative Approaches to Second
Language Acquisition (GASLA):
"Distinguishing White from White"
McGill
University, Montréal, Canada. 9 May
1997
American Association for Applied
Linguistics (AAAL):
"Transfer: A
tradition in transition"
Orlando,
FL. 9 March (with R.A. Sprouse)
1996
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"Optional
Infinitives in child L2
acquisition––Really?"
Boston,
MA. 3 November (with B. Haznedar)
1996
The 6th Annual Conference of the
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA):
"Misleading
differences: L1 and L2 acquisition"
University of
Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 31 May
1995
Language Acquisition Research
Symposium (LARS):
"When
syntactic theories evolve: Consequences for L2 acquisition
research"
Utrecht
University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 12
May (with R.A. Sprouse)
1995
Linguistic Society of America
(LSA):
"Syntactic
theories and conclusions in L2A research"
New Orleans,
LA. 6 January (with R.A. Sprouse)
1994
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"On the L2A of
deverbal compounds: Evidence for agreement"
Boston,
MA. 5 November (with D. Lardiere)
1994
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"What UG can
(and cannot) account for in nonnative acquisition of
morphological inflection"
Concordia and
McGill Universities, Montréal,
Canada. 8 October (with D. Lardiere)
1994
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"L2 cognitive
states and Absolute L1 Influence"
Concordia and
McGill Universities, Montréal,
Canada. 7 October (with R.A. Sprouse)
1994
The 4th Annual Conference of the
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA):
"On the
acquisition of German DP"
University of
Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France. 8 September
(with T.
Parodi, K. Mierisch, K. Olawsky, U. Hong & H. Clahsen)
1993
The 22nd Annual University of
Wisconsin – Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium:
"The
development of DP in German L2"
Milwaukee,
WI. 8 October (with T. Parodi, K.
Mierisch, U. Hong & H. Clahsen)
1993
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"'Transfer'
and the distinction between lexical and functional
categories"
University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 21 March
1993
Recent Advances in Second
Language
Acquisition:
"Lexical and
functional categories in L2A: A principled distinction for
explaining 'Transfer'?"
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. 16
January
1992
British Association of Lecturers
in
English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP):
"The problem
of accuracy in EAP: Confronting the devil in the details"
University of
Durham, Durham, England. 7 November
(with M. Young-Scholten)
1992
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"An
alternative account of apparent inaccessibility to UG in L2A"
Boston,
MA. 24 October)
1992
Language Acquisition Research
Symposium (LARS):
"Evidence in
L2A: When input data are and aren't"
Utrecht
University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 19
August (with M. Beck & L. Eubank)
1991
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"Explaining
the development of Interlanguage: Successive grammars"
Boston,
MA. 18 October (with R.A. Sprouse)
1991
Theory Construction and
Methodology
in Second Language Acquisition Research:
"Functional
categories and parameter re-setting in L2A: A Turkish-German
longitudinal study"
Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI. 5
October (with R.A. Sprouse)
1991
Generative Linguistics in the Old
World (GLOW) Workshop on the Development of Movement and Inflection:
"On the
acquisition of the syntax of German verbs by Turkish speakers"
University of
Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands. 24
March (with R.A. Sprouse)
1991
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"On negative
evidence not engaging UG: Some positive consequences"
University of
California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 2
March (with M. Gubala-Ryzak)
1990
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"The
Fundamental Difference Hypothesis: A critical evaluation"
University of
Oregon, Eugene, Eugene, OR. 2 March
1989
Boston University Conference on
Language Development:
"L2 knowledge:
What is the null hypothesis?"
Boston,
MA. 15 October
1989
The Sixth Workshop on Comparative
Germanic Syntax:
"All verb
second clauses are CPs"
Lund
University, Lund, Sweden. 18 June (with S.
Vikner)
1988
Linguistic Society of America
(LSA):
"Explaining
the developmental sequence of L2 German negative placement:
A UG-based account"
New Orleans,
LA. 28 December
1988
Language Acquisition Research
Symposium (LARS):
"Negation in
L2 German: Sequence data as support for UG in adult SLA"
Utrecht
University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 25
August (with A. Tomaselli)
1988
The Fifth Workshop on Comparative
Germanic Syntax:
"Some
implications from an analysis of German word order"
University of
Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. 20
May (with A. Tomaselli)
1988
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"Developmental
sequences: In search of data to test problem-solving vs.
UG-based models of SLA"
University of
Hawai‘i, Honolulu, HI. 4 March
1987
Second Language Research Forum
(SLRF):
"Second
language acquisition and the issue of negative evidence"
University of
California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 22
February
1986
Language Acquisition Research
Symposium (LARS):
"The
epistemological status of second language acquisition"
Utrecht
University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 4 September
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2010
"A practice talk for GALANA 2010:
Does linear distance explain L2 (in)sensitivity to agreement violations
in online processing?"
Department of
Second Language Studies, University of
Hawai‘i. 26 August
(with Z. Wen,
M. Miyao, W. Chu & A. Takeda)
2010
"Let's go on a Hawaiian tour (of
child L2 acquisition)"
Department of
Linguistics, Nanzan University, Japan. 22
February
2009
"A practice talk for GALA 2009:
Dissociations between knowledge and performance in non-natives'
processing of number agreement in English"
Department of
Second Language Studies, University of
Hawai‘i. 27 August
(with Z. Wen,
M. Miyao, W. Chu & A. Takeda)
2008
"Some problems in the L1
acquisition
of Korean wh-constructions
with Negative Polarity Items"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Maryland. 12 December
(with H.S.
Song)
2008
"L2 adult, L2 child, and L1 child
comparisons in the acquisition of Korean wh-constructions"
Linguistics
Program, University of South Carolina. 21 November
(with H.S.
Song)
2008
"L2 adult, L2 child, and L1 child
comparisons in the acquisition of Korean wh-constructions"
School of
Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of
Reading, England. 24 July
(with H.S.
Song)
2008
"Island sensitivity in
development"
Department of
Language and Linguistic Science, University of York,
England. 29 May
(with J.H. Ma
& J.-H. Kim)
2008
"On the unfolding of nonnative
language in children and adults"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Illinois. 22
April (with H.S. Song)
2008
"On the unfolding of nonnative
language in children and adults"
Department of
Second Language Studies, Indiana University. 15
April (with H.S. Song)
2008
"On the unfolding of nonnative
language in children and adults"
University of
Trieste, Italy. 4 April (with H.S.
Song)
2008
"On the unfolding of nonnative
language in children and adults"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Southern California.
11 February (with H.S. Song)
2006
"Developmental puzzles in child
L2
(vs. child L1 vs. adult L2) morphosyntax"
Durham
Linguistics Ellipsis and North East Syntax Seminar (NESS)
School of
English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle
University, England. 12 June
2005
"Evidence for the CP domain in
early
Interlanguage "
Kobe Area
Circle of Linguistics, Kobe Shoin Women's University,
Japan. 20 May
2004
"The theoretical import of child
L2
acquisition research"
Kobe Area
Circle of Linguistics, Kobe Shoin Women's University,
Japan. 13 July
2003
"Child L2 acquisition as
arbitrator"
Department of
Second Language Studies, University of
Hawai‘i. 23 October
2003
"Child L2 acquisition: Paving the
way"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands. 8 September
2003
"Child L2 acquisition: Paving the
way"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Durham, England. 3
July
2002
"On child L2 development of
syntax
and morphology"
Dipartimento
di Filologia e Critica Letteraria, Università
di Siena, Italy. 17 December
2002
"Generative perspectives on L2
acquisition: The view from L1 grammar"
Department of
Linguistics, Université du Québec
à Montréal, Canada. 25 April
2001
"The routes of language: On child
L2
development"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Southern California.
16 October
2001
"Developmental paths in child L2
acquisition of English double-object datives"
Department of
Second Language Studies, University of
Hawai‘i. 14 February
2001
"The second language instinct"
Department of
Second Language Studies, University of
Hawai‘i. 12 February
2001
"On the significance of L2
'poverty
of the stimulus' effects"
English
Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England. 31 January
2000
"What (really) counts as evidence
for UG in (adult) L2 acquisition?"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada. 18
April
2000
"Acquisition of the English
dative
alternation by L1 Japanese and Korean children: A preliminary study"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada. 17
April
2000
"Asymmetric L2 development of the
English dative alternation by Japanese- and Korean-speaking
children"
Department of
Linguistics and English Language, University of Durham,
England. 13 March
(with M. Whong
Barr)
1999
"The black box in L2 acquisition"
Department of
Linguistics and Phonetics, University College London,
England. 20 October
1999
"Full Transfer/Full Access in L2
acquisition of syntax"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Delaware. 12 February
1998
"The main drivers of second
language
acquisition: A bicycle built for L2"
Language
Center, University of Maryland. 9 December
1998
"On the interplay between L1
grammar
and UG in L2 acquisition of syntax"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada. 20
November
1998
"Assumptions and predictions in
the
Full Transfer/Full Access model"
Department of
Linguistics, McGill University, Canada. 19
November
1998
"Child L2 English: Optional
uninflection, not Optional Infinitives"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Maryland. 30 October
1998
"Full Transfer/Full Access: The
L2
initial state and beyond"
Department of
Linguistics, Georgetown University. 29 October
1998
"Wanted: L2 acquisition data that
don't play hide and seek with evolving syntactic theory"
Institute of
Cultural and Linguistics Studies, Keio University,
Japan. 30 March
1998
"'Transfer' and UG in L2
acquisition
of syntax"
Department of
Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College, University of
London, England. 6 March
1996
"'Transfer' and the L2 initial
state"
Department of
English, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands. 14 May
1995
"'Transfer': Maligned, realigned,
reconsidered, redefined"
Program in
Applied Linguistics, Boston University. 13 December
1995
"Verb forms and verb positions:
How
do they stack up in L2 acquisition?"
Department of
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. 7 December
1995
"Getting a grip on 'evidence' in
L2
syntax"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. 13 October
1995
"Consequences for L2A research
from
the rise and fall of syntactic theories"
Department of
Language and Linguistic Science, University of York,
England. 8 June
1994
"Functional categories and the
initial state of L2 acquisition"
Department of
Language and Linguistics, University of Essex,
England. 2 March
1994
"On the initial state of L2
acquisition: Conceptual and empirical arguments"
Department of
Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh,
Scotland. 4 February
1993
"Nonnative language acquisition
in
the Principles and Parameters framework"
Department of
Speech, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England. 13 May
1993
"Analyses of an early stage of
Interlanguage (L1 French, target language English)"
Department of
Linguistics and Phonetics, University College London,
England. 10 February
1993
"Verb movement, Universal
Grammar,
and the structure of IL (Interlanguage, that is)"
Department of
Linguistics, University of Southern California.
13 January
1992
"On Turkish L1, German L2A"
Seminar
für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, University of
Düsseldorf, Germany. 7 July
1991
"Learnability and grammar
reorganization in L2A: Against negative evidence causing the unlearning
of verb movement"
CUNY
Linguistics Colloquia, City University of New York. 19
December
1991
"On testing models of L2A"
University of
Durham, England. 19 August
1991
"The logical problem of language
acquisition: Negative evidence in L2A"
Seminar
für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, University of
Düsseldorf, Germany. 12 June
1991
"On negative evidence not
engaging
UG in L2A"
University of
Geneva, Switzerland. 11 June
1991
"Evidence for parameter
re-setting
in the acquisition of German as a second language"
Institut
für Linguistik, University of Stuttgart,
Germany. 4 June
1991
"The syntax of German verbs and
the
theory of second language acquisition"
Harvard
University. 19 March (with R.A. Sprouse)
1991
"A comparison between second
language acquisition in children and adults"
Brandeis
University. 30 January
1990
"On the L2 acquisition of German
word order"
Department of
Foreign Languages, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. 20 March
1989
"Acquisition of German by native
speakers of Romance null subject languages"
University of
Utah. 23 May
1989
"On the verb second mechanism:
All
V2 clauses are CPs"
University of
Geneva, Switzerland. 2 May (with S.
Vikner)
1989
"Modularity and the issue of
negative evidence in L2 acquisition"
Cornell
University. 3 March
1989
"On the availability of UG to
second
language acquirers"
Cornell
University. 2 March
1989
"The relevance of linguistic
theory
to SLA research"
Boston
University. 1 March
1989
"On deciding between linguistic
specific or general learning mechanisms as the basis of SLA"
Boston
University. 28 February
1989
"La grammaire
générative et l'acquisition d'une langue
étrangère"
("Generative
grammar and second language acquisition")
Department of
French, University of Geneva, Switzerland. 1
and 8 February
1989
"Changing parameters in adult
German
L2 acquisition"
University of
Geneva, Switzerland. 24 January (with
A. Tomaselli)
1988
"German word order: Can L2 data
be
used as evidence?"
Department of
English, University of Geneva, Switzerland. 23
June
1988
"The involvement of UG in (adult)
second language acquisition"
University of
Leiden, The Netherlands. 17 May
1988
"Linguistic theory and second
language acquisition"
University of
Düsseldorf, Germany. 16 May
1988
"Modularity and second language
acquisition"
Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. 1 March
1988
"A comparison between two models
of
SLA"
Indiana
University (Bloomington, IN). 11 February
1987
"On models of second language
acquisition"
University of
Geneva, Switzerland. 8 December
1987
"The epistemological status of
second language acquisition and the issue of negative evidence"
University of
Southern California. 19 February
1986
"Linguistics, epistemology of
language and second language acquisition theory"
University of
Southern California. 15 and 17 September
1985
"Language theories and the theory
of
second language acquisition"
University of
Southern California. 12 December
1983
Invited discussant, The First
Rhetoric and Linguistics Round Table
University of
Southern California. 19 October
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Approaches to Language Acquisition––North America
(GALANA)
2010
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Editorial Board, Linguistic
Approaches to Bilingualism
2009
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Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
2009 - present Co-supervisor, Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Cologne, Germany
2008
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Approaches to Language Acquisition––North America
(GALANA)
2008
Research Grant Application
Referee,
National Science Foundation,
USA
2007 - 09
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Association (EuroSLA)
2007 - 08
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2007
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Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
2007 - 10
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2007
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2006
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2006
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2006
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Second
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2006
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Scientific Research, The Netherlands
2005
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Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
2005 - 07
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Referee, EuroSLA Yearbook
2005 - present Member
of the Advisory Panel, Linguistics Program, National Science Foundation
2005 - present Member
of the Editorial Board, EuroSLA
Yearbook
2004
Article Referee, Linguistik
Aktuell/Linguistics Today series, Benjamins
2004
External Assessor, Tenure case,
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Illinois
2004
Research Grant Application
Referee,
European Co-operation in the field of
Scientific and Technical Research
(COST)
2004
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Referee,
Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research, The Netherlands
2003 - 04
Abstract
Referee, European Second Language
Association (EuroSLA)
2003
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Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
2003
Abstract Referee, Generative
Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)
2003
Article Referee, Transactions of
the
Philological Society
2003 - present Associate Editor, Language
Acquisition
2003 - 07
Co-supervisor
and co promotor of Ph.D. dissertation, University of Groningen
2003
External Assessor, Tenure case,
Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa
2003 - present Member
of the Scientific Committee, European
Second Language Association
(EuroSLA)
2003 - 04
Research
Grant Application Referee, Arts and
Humanities Research Board (AHRB), UK
2002
Article Referee, Bilingual
Research
Journal
2002 - 05
Co-supervisor
and co-promotor of Ph.D. dissertation, Utrecht University
2002
External Assessor,
Promotion to
Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
(UK)
2002
External Assessor, Reappointment
as
Assistant Director of Research, Research Centre for English and Applied
Linguistics, University of
Cambridge (UK)
2002 - 06
Member, Ph.D.
committee, University of California, Los Angeles
2001
Abstract Referee, Generative
Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
2001
Abstract Referee, Generative
Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)
2001
Abstract Referee, Implications
from
Second Language Acquisition Research for Teachers of Japanese (University
of Durham)
2001
Abstract Referee, Pacific Second
Language Research Forum (PacSLRF)
2001 - 02
Abstract
Referee, West Coast Conference on
Formal Linguistics (WCCFL)
2001
Article Referee, Natural Language
and Linguistic Theory
2001
Internal Examiner, Ph.D. viva,
University of Durham
2001 - present Member
of the Advisory Board, Japan Second
Language Association (Japan)
2001 - present Member
of the Editorial Board, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
series, John Benjamins
2001
Member of Linguistics
Consultation
Group, Benchmarking statement, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher
Education (UK)
2001
Research Grant Application
Referee,
Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research, The Netherlands
2001
Research Grant Application
Referee,
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada
2000
Abstract Referee, Second Language
Research Forum (SLRF)
2000
Abstract Referee, The Third
Durham
Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
2000
Article Referee, Language
2000
Article Referee, Language
Acquisition
2000
Article Referee, Language Learning
2000
External Assessor, Appointment of
Professor/Head of Department of English, City University of Hong Kong
2000
External Assessor, Promotion to
Full
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
2000
External Assessor, Tenure case,
Department of French and Italian, Indiana University
2000 - 01
Research
Grant Application Referee, Economic
and Social Research Council (ESRC),
UK
2000
Research Grant Application
Referee,
Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs
et l'Aide à la
Recherche (FCAR), Canada
2000
Research Grant Application
Referee,
The Leverhulme Trust, UK
2000 - 05
Research
Grant Application Referee, National
Science Foundation, USA
1999
Abstract Referee, Generative
Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
1999 - 09
Abstract
Referee, Tokyo Conference on
Psycholinguistics (Keio University, Japan)
1999 - 00
Article
Referee, Durham Working Papers in
Linguistics
1999
Book Proposal Referee, Cambridge
University Press
1999
Book Proposal Referee, Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers
1999 - 02
College
member, Research Support Team of Management, Psychology, Linguistics
and Education, Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC), UK
1999 - present Member
of the Advisory Board, Tokyo
Conference on Psycholinguistics (Keio
University, Japan)
1998 - 99
Abstract
Referee, American Association for
Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
1998
Abstract Referee, European Second
Language Association (EuroSLA)
1998
Article Referee, International
Journal of Bilingualism
1998
Article Referee, Linguistics: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences
1998
Consultant (second language
acquisition), Program Committee of the Linguistic Society of America
1998
External Assessor, Tenure case,
Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana University
1998
External Examiner, Ph.D. viva,
University of Edinburgh
1998 - 99
Research
Grant Application Referee, Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific
Research, The Netherlands
1997 - 98
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Referee, Generative Approaches to
Second Language Acquisition (GASLA)
1997
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Arnold
Publishers
1997
Member, Ph.D. committee, Boston
University
1996
Abstract Referee, Language
Acquisition: Knowledge, Representation and Processing
(University of
Edinburgh)
1996
Abstract Referee, What Children
Have
To Say About Linguistic Theories (Utrecht University)
1996
Article Referee, Studies in
Second
Language Acquisition
1996 - 99
External
Examiner, M.A. programme (Linguistics), University of York
1996
Internal Examiner, Ph.D. viva,
University of Durham
1996
Research Grant Application
Referee,
Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs
et l'Aide à la
Recherche (FCAR), Canada
1996 - 97
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Grant Application Referee, The
Leverhulme Trust, UK
1996
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Referee,
National Science Foundation,
USA
1995
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Linguistics
1995 - present Associate, Behavioral and Brain
Sciences
1995 - 98
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Examiner, M.A. programmes (Language Acquisition; Applied Linguistics),
University of Essex
1995
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University of Edinburgh
1995 - 96
Research
Grant Application Referee, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada
1994 - 10
Abstract
Referee, Boston University
Conference on Language Development
1994
Article Referee, Studia
Linguistica
1994
Article Referee, Studies in
Second
Language Acquisition
1994 - 95
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Proposal
Referee, Edward Arnold Publishers
1994
Member, Ph.D. committee, Boston
University
1994
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revision), Basil Blackwell Publishers
1994
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revision), Routledge
1993 - 2005 Advisor
(second language acquisition and linguistics), Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, Inc., Publishers
1993
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Blackwell
Publishers
1993 - present Member
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Language Research
1992
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and Linguistic Theory
1992 - 06
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Referee, Second Language Research
1992
Book Proposal Referee, Basil
Blackwell Publishers
1992
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Language Acquisition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1992 - present Member
of the Board of Consulting Editors, The
Linguistic Review
1991 - 97
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Referee, Language Acquisition
1991
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1990
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Research
1989 - 92
Abstract
Referee, Boston University
Conference on Language Development
1987
Article Referee, Second Language
Research
TEACHING
Introduction to Second Language
Acquisition (beginning graduate, UH, 06)
* Seminar in Second Language Acquisition:
"L2 (Syntactic) Parsing" (advanced graduate, UH, 04 05; 07; 10)
* Proseminar in Language Analysis:
Generative Approaches to L2 (Morpho)Syntax (graduate, UH, 03 10)
English Syntax (beginning
graduate, UH, 02 05)
Language Concepts for Second Language
Learning and Teaching
(undergraduate/graduate, UH, 02 10)
* Seminar in Second Language Acquisition:
"Child L2 Acquisition" (advanced graduate, UH, 02 03; 06; 09)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition: "Early
L2 Acquisition" (advanced graduate, Durham, 01)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition:
"Acquisition of Argument Structure" (advanced graduate, Durham, 00)
Language and Learning (contributed,
lecturing on morphology): (B.A. Ed
undergraduate, Durham, 99 00)
Syntax 2 (with J.E. Emonds, M.O.
Tallerman) (undergraduate/graduate,
Durham, 99)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition:
"Modularity" (advanced graduate, Durham, 98)
Linguistic Controversies: "Creoles"
(with J.E. Emonds)
(undergraduate/graduate, Durham, 97)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition: "Two
First Languages" (advanced graduate, Durham, 97)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition:
"Optional Infinitives" (advanced graduate, Durham, 96)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition: "Child
L2 Acquisition" (advanced graduate, Durham, 95)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition:
"Cross-linguistic Comparisons" (advanced graduate, Durham, 95)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition:
"Bilingualism" (advanced graduate, Durham, 94)
* Seminar in Language Acquisition: "Verb
Movement" (advanced graduate, Durham, 94)
* Cross linguistic Acquisition of Syntax
(undergraduate/graduate, Durham, 93 01)
* Empirical Issues in Applied Linguistics
(graduate, Durham, 93 96)
* First Language Acquisition of Syntax
(undergraduate/graduate, Durham, 93 01)
* Research Methodology (undergraduate,
Durham, 93)
* Second Language Acquisition of Syntax
(undergraduate/graduate, Durham, 93 01)
First Language Acquisition
(undergraduate, Durham, 92)
(Introduction to Second) Language
Acquisition (beginning graduate,
Durham, 92 00)
Second Language Acquisition Theory
(undergraduate/graduate, Durham, 92)
Field Methods (undergraduate/graduate,
Boston, 91 92)
Morphology (undergraduate, Boston, 91
92)
Readings in Cultural and
Anthropological Linguistics (graduate, Boston,
91 92)
Languages and Language Learning
(undergraduate, Boston, 90 91)
* Seminar in Applied Linguistic Research
(advanced graduate, Boston, 90 92)
Universals of Language
(undergraduate/graduate, Boston, 90 92)
Foundations of Language
(undergraduate, Boston, 89 90)
* Language Acquisition and Linguistic
Theory (advanced graduate, Boston, 89 92)
Syntax I (advanced
undergraduate/graduate, Boston, 89 90)
Introduction to English Linguistics
(undergraduate, Geneva, 88 89)
* Second Language Acquisition
(intermediate undergraduate, Geneva, 88 89)
* newly developed course
SUPERVISION
UNDERGRADUATE
1993 - 01 8
undergraduate dissertations
GRADUATE––M.A.
THESIS/SCHOLARLY PAPER (HONOLULU)
In progress Li Wang
(Thesis, Linguistics)
(committee
member
2008
Hyang Suk Song (Distinction,
Thesis)
On the L2
Acquisition of Korean Wh-Constructions
with Negative Polarity
Items: Adult L2, Child L2, and Child L1 Development
(supervisor)
2007
Mari Miyao (Thesis)
Processing
Long-distance Dependencies in Japanese as a Second Language
(supervisor)
2006
Gerald Bullock (Distinction,
Scholarly Paper)
"The second
language acquisition of argument structure: English
locative verbs and constructions"
(supervisor)
2006
Aya Takeda (Distinction, Thesis)
Effects of
Pitch Accent on Ambiguous Sentence Processing by Native
Japanese Second Language Learners of English
(supervisor)
2005
Sunyoung Lee (Thesis)
Development in
the L2 Acquisition of
English Reflexives by Korean Adults and Children
(supervisor)
2005
Akira Omaki (Distinction, Thesis)
Working Memory
and Relative Clause
Attachment in First and Second Language Processing
(supervisor)
2004
Wei Chu (Distinction, Scholarly
Paper)
"Another look
at 'verb raising' in the
L2 English of Chinese speakers"
(supervisor)
2002
Mi-Hyun Kim (Scholarly Paper)
"Transfer of
nasalization by native
Korean speakers in English stops"
(second reader)
GRADUATE––M.A.
DISSERTATION (DURHAM)
1993 - 02 24
M.A.
dissertations (two jointly supervised; 14 of these students were
awarded an "M.A. with Distinction," and one was an "M.A. by Research")
2002
Holger Hopp (M.A. by Research)
Constraints on
Variable Word Order: Learnability and UG in Advanced
English-German and Japanese-German Interlanguage
2001
Keiko Matsunaga (Distinction)
Transfer of L1
Causatives in L2 Acquisition of English by Spanish,
Chinese and Japanese Speakers
2001
Mari Umeda
(Distinction)
Acquisition of
Reflexive Binding in English by Child Speakers of
Japanese
2000
Masahisa Abe
The
Acquisition of Wh-Movement by
Japanese Learners of English: A Study
of Subjacency and the Empty Category Principle
2000
Gregg Bailes
Wanna
Contraction in a British English
Environment
2000
Hiromi Ozaki
Analysis of
Negotiated Interaction in Discourse of Non-native Speaker
and Non-native Speaker in Comparison to the Discourse of Non-native
Speaker and
Native
Speaker
2000
Sharon
Unsworth (Distinction)
The
Referential Properties of Root Infinitives in Bilingual
(German/English) First Language Acquisition
1999
Kentaro Iwata
An Empirical
Study of the Role of Negative Evidence in Second Language
Acquisition
1999
Melinda Whong-Barr (Distinction)
A Child L2
Study: Acquisition of the English Dative Alternation by
Korean and Japanese Speakers
1998
Barbara Garcia (Distinction)
The L2 Initial
State: Minimal Trees or Full Transfer/Full Access
1998
Heather
Marsden (Distinction)
A Study of L1
Influence in the L2 Acquisition of Japanese with respect
to a "Poverty of the Stimulus" Phenomenon
1998
David Stringer
(Distinction)
Semantic
Conflation in the Acquisition of Locative Verbs: Theoretical
Investigations and Empirical Evidence
1997
Masanori Bannai (Distinction)
Effects of L2
Instruction: A Case Study of Two Japanese Learners of
English
1997
Nobuko Mikami
The
Effectiveness of Negative Input Enhancement in the L2 Classroom
1997
Lieve van
Espen (Distinction)
The L2 Initial
State: A Pilot Study of the CP Projection in Adult L2
Acquisition
1996
Marcela Cazzoli-Goeta
The Lexical
Approach and Language Acquisition
1996
Alan Sumner
(Distinction)
The
Self-determined Learner and Course Material
1995
Jagdish Kaur (Distinction)
Some
Limitations of Classroom Instruction
1994
Ute Bohnacker (Distinction)
Determiner
Phrases and Early Child Language Acquisition
1994
Marianna Hordos
On the
Acquisition of Nominal Suffixation in Hungarian: Two Case Studies
1994
Isa Muxi
(Distinction)
A Minimalist
Approach to Catalan Inflectional Phrases
1993
Rani Mariappan
Wh-question
Formation of Malaysian Chinese Students
1993
Celeste Perez
(Distinction)
"Good
Ears"––A Case of Myths or Modules
(Implications from Theories of Modularity and Music on L2 Phonology)
1993
Bill Whitfield
Evaluating
Reactions to a World Language: A North-east Perspective
GRADUATE––M.A. ADVISOR
(HONOLULU)
2005
Pei-Chun Chou
GRADUATE––ADVANCED
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE ADVISOR
(HONOLULU)
2010
Sang-Gu Kang (Linguistics)
On Soon Lee
(Linguistics)
2006
Kyung Sook Shin
(Linguistics)
2004
Tatjana Ilic (Linguistics)
Sunyoung Lee
(Linguistics)
GRADUATE––PH.D.
DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
In progress Tatjana Ilic
(University of
Hawai‘i, Linguistics)
In progress Sang-Gu Kang
(University of Hawai‘i, Linguistics)
2010
Munhong Choe (University of
Hawai‘i, Second Language Studies)
Sentence
Planning in Nonnative Language
2010
Hye-Young Kwak (University of
Hawai‘i, Linguistics)
Scope
Interpretation in First and Second Language Acquisition: Numeral
Quantifiers and Negation
2009
Sunyoung Lee (University of
Hawai‘i, Linguistics)
Interpreting
Scope Ambiguity in First and Second Language Processing:
Universal Quantifiers and Negation
2008
Hye Ri Joo (University of
Hawai‘i, Second Language Studies)
Agentivity of
Passives and Inchoatives in Second Language Learners of
English and Korean
2006
Jill Gilkerson (UCLA, Linguistics)
Testing for UG
Access: An Investigation of How Native Spanish Speakers
Acquire English Particle Verbs
2005
Yasuko Ito (University of
Hawai‘i, Second Language Studies)
A
Psycholinguistic Approach to WANNA Contraction in Second Language
Acquisition
1997
Julie Whitlow (Boston University,
Program in Applied Linguistics)
Assessing the
Effects of Positive and Negative Input on Second Language
Acquisition: A Study Investigating the Learnability of the English
Passive
by Speakers of
Japanese
GRADUATE––PH.D.
DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR/ADVISOR
In progress 9 current Ph.D.
students
Hyunah Ahn
Wei Chu (ABD,
2009)
Jung Hee Kim
(ABD, 2009––jointly supervised with
Prof. Amy Schafer)
Kitaek Kim
(Fulbright fellowship)
Nadine Kolb
(University of Cologne, jointly supervised with Prof.
Christiane Bongartz)
Mari Miyao
Kyae-Sung Park
(ABD, 2010)
Aya Takeda
Zhijun Wen
(ABD, 2010)
GRADUATE––PH.D.
DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR
1993 - 07 12
Ph.D.
dissertations
2007
Tomomi Hasegawa (Center for
Japanese
Studies fellowship; Honolulu)
The Critical
Period Hypothesis in Very Early Child L2 Acquisition of
Japanese: The Uninevitability of Native-like Attainment
Currently:
Yokohama National University, Japan (Assistant Professor)
2007
Holger
Hopp (PhD Cum Laude––jointly supervised with
Prof. Kees de Bot and Dr. Laurie Stowe, University of Groningen;
Graduate Award
scholarship ("AiO"))
Ultimate
Attainment at the Interfaces in Second Language Acquisition:
Grammar and Processing
Currently:
University of Mannheim, Germany (Akademischer Mitarbeiter
[≈Assistant Professor])
2007
Annie
Tremblay (Doctoral award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada––jointly supervised with Prof.
Amy Schafer,
Honolulu)
Bridging the
Gap between Theoretical Linguistics and Psycholinguistics
in L2 Phonology: Acquisition and Processing of Word Stress by French
Canadian L2
Learners of English
Currently:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Assistant
Professor)
2007
Lieve Van Espen (Economic and
Social
Research Council scholarship; Durham)
The L2
Acquisition of Agreement: Comparing the Interlanguage of Dutch-,
English-, French- and Swedish-Speaking Learners of Spanish
Currently:
Minderhedenforum, Brussels, Belgium (Deputy Director)
2006
Barbara Schulz (Doctoral
Dissertation Research Grant, National Science Foundation; Honolulu)
Wh-scope
Marking in English Interlanguage
Grammars––Transfer and Processing Effects on the
Second Language Acquisition of English
Complex Questions
Currently:
University of South Carolina (Assistant Professor)
2005
David Stringer (Arts and
Humanities
Research Board scholarship; Durham)
Paths in First
Language Acquisition: Motion through Space in English,
French and Japanese
Currently:
Indiana University (Assistant Professor)
2005
Sharon
Unsworth (PhD Cum Laude––jointly supervised with
Prof. Peter Coopmans, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht
University;
Graduate Award scholarship
("AiO");
Marie Curie Fellowship;
University of Durham Research Studentship)
Child L2,
Adult L2, Child L1:
Differences and Similarities: A Study on the Acquisition of Direct
Object Scrambling in Dutch
Currently:
Utrecht University, The
Netherlands (Universitair Docent [≈Assistant Professor])
2005
Melinda Whong-Barr (Overseas
Research
Studentship; Durham)
Morphology,
Derivational Syntax and Second Language Acquisition of
Resultatives
Currently:
University of Leeds, UK (Lecturer [≈Assistant
Professor])
2004
Heather Marsden (University of
Durham Research Studentship; Durham)
Quantifier
Scope in Non-native Japanese: A Comparative Interlanguage
Study of Chinese, English, and Korean-Speaking Learners
Currently:
University of York, UK (Lecturer [≈Assistant
Professor])
1999
Ute Bohnacker (British Academy
scholarship; Durham)
Icelandic plus
English: Language Differentiation and Functional
Categories in a Successively Bilingual Child
Currently:
Uppsala University, Sweden (Senior Lecturer
[≈Associate Professor])
1997
Belma Haznedar (Durham)
Child Second
Language Acquisition of English: A Longitudinal Case Study
of a Turkish-speaking Child
Currently:
Boğaziçi University, Turkey (Associate Professor)
1993
Donna Lardiere (Boston University)
The
Acquisition of Word-Formation Rules for English Synthetic
Compounding
Currently:
Georgetown University (Professor)
ADMINISTRATION
Acting Director, M.A. in Theoretical Linguistics
(Durham)
Acting Director, Ph.D. in Linguistics (Durham)
Acting Director, Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics
(Durham)
Acting Secretary, Board of Examiners (Durham)
Advisor, Ph.D. Admissions Committee (Honolulu)
Chair, Admissions Committee, Advanced Graduate
Certificate in Second
Language Studies (Honolulu)
Chair, Board of Examiners (Durham)
Chair, Departmental Search
Committee––Psycholinguistics Post (Durham)
Chair,
Elizabeth Holmes-Carr Scholarship Committee (Honolulu)
Chair, Ph.D. Admissions Committee (Honolulu)
Co-director, Undergraduate Admissions (Durham)
Co-founder (with M. Young-Scholten), Generative
Approaches to Language
Acquisition (GALA) (Durham)
Co-founder (with K.U. Deen), Generative Approaches
to Language
Acquisition––North America (GALANA) (Honolulu)
Coordinator, The Language Analysis and
Experimentation Labs (Honolulu)
Coordinator,
SLS 441 instruction (Honolulu)
Course Director, Joint Honours and Combined Studies
Students (Durham)
Course Director, Second Year Linguistics Honours
Students (Durham)
Departmental Electronic Correspondence Coordinator
(Durham)
Director, Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (Durham)
Director, Ph.D. in Linguistics (Durham)
Director, Undergraduate Admissions (Durham)
Faculty Advisor, Boston
University Conference on
Language Development
Founder, North
East Language Acquisition Group
(NELAG) (Durham)
Graduate Advisor (Boston)
Head, Departmental Research Committee (Durham)
Head, Publicity Committee (Honolulu)
Library and Bookstore Liaison (Honolulu)
Member, Ad Hoc Committee to formulate new M.A.
concentration in Second
Language Acquisition (Honolulu)
Member, Admissions Committee, Advanced Graduate
Certificate in Second
Language Studies (Honolulu)
Member, The Arts and Social Sciences Library
Advisory Committee (Durham)
Member, The Board of the Faculty of Arts (Durham)
Member, Cognitive Science Interdisciplinary group
(Honolulu)
Member, Committee on Undergraduate Degree Programs
(Boston)
Member, Cooperating Graduate Faculty in Linguistics
(Honolulu)
Member, Departmental Advisory Committee for Tenure
and Promotion
(Honolulu)
Member, Departmental Modularisation Committee
(Durham)
Member, Department Personnel and Policy Committee
(Honolulu)
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (Boston)
Member, Graduate Faculty, English as a Second
Language (Honolulu)
Member, Graduate Faculty, Second Language
Acquisition (Honolulu)
Member, Humanities Council (Honolulu)
Member, Human Subjects Committee (Honolulu)
Member, Language Analysis and Experimentation
Laboratories (LAE Labs)
Governance Committee (Honolulu)
Member, Management Committee for the Degree of B.A.
with Honours in
Combined Arts (Durham)
Member, Ph.D. Admissions Committee (Honolulu)
Member, Ph.D. Policy Committee (Honolulu)
Member, Research Committee for the College of
Languages, Linguistics
and Literatures (Honolulu)
Member, Research Facilitation Committee for the
College of Languages,
Linguistics and Literatures (Honolulu)
Member, Research Training Revolving Fund (RTRF)
Policy Committee for
the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literatures (Honolulu)
Member, Search Committee––African
Linguistics Post
(Boston)
Member, Search Committee––L2
Psycholinguistics Post
(Honolulu)
Member, Search Committee––Second
Language
Acquisition Post (Honolulu)
Member, Search Committee––Second
Language Pedagogy
Post (Honolulu)
Member, Statutory Committee––Chair in
Theoretical
Linguistics (Durham)
Member, Tenure and Promotions Review
Committee––2003-2004 (Honolulu)
Member, Visiting Colleague Committee (Honolulu)
Organizer, Linguistics Colloquium Series (Durham)
Organizer, Undergraduate
Information Booklet (Durham)
Research Coordinator, DUMAS (Durham)
Research Recruitment and Publicity Officer (Durham)
Trustee, Ruth Crymes Memorial Scholarship Trust
(Honolulu)
Undergraduate Advisor (Boston)
In 1996, M. Young-Scholten and I were successful in
our application for
an ESRC quota award for the M.A. in Language Acquisition (Durham).
In 1996, M. Young-Scholten and I were
successful in our application for
the ESRC competition award for all of the (then-new) Applied
Linguistics
M.A. degrees (Durham).
CONFERENCE, INSTITUTE, AND RESEARCH
GROUP PARTICIPATION
2010
Participant, 4th Annual Summer
Heritage Research Institute
"Heritage
Speakers: Linguistics and Pedagogy"
University of
Hawai‘i
Honolulu,
HI. 21-25 June
2008
Participant, Workshop on the
Acquisition of DP by Second Language Learners
Newcastle
University
Newcastle,
England. 24 June
2007
Participant, Linguistic Society
of
America (LSA) Summer Linguistic Institute
Stanford
University
Palo Alto,
CA. 4-16 July
2005
Participant, Linguistic Society
of
America (LSA) Summer Linguistic Institute
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology//Harvard University
Cambridge,
MA. 27 June - 15 July
2004
Co-organizer (with K.U. Deen),
Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition––North America (GALANA)
University of
Hawai‘i
Honolulu,
HI. 17-20 December
2003 - 06
Invited Team
Member, Network on Cognitive and
Social Processes in the Formation of
Pidgin, Creole, Mixed Languages, and in Second
Language Acquisition
(Website: http://www.languagesincontact.com).
Research
project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, awarded to Prof. Claire Lefebvre (Principal
Investigator, Université du Québec
à
Montréal), Prof. Christine Jourdan (Concordia University)
and Prof. Lydia White (McGill University)
2002
Co-organizer (with K.U.
Deen), Language Acquisition and
Development reading/research group
University of
Hawai‘i
Honolulu, HI
2002
Participant, Eye-tracking
Training
Workshop
University of
Hawai‘i
Honolulu,
HI. 1-2 March
2002 - 03
Participant,
Cognitive Science Colloquium
University of
Hawai‘i
Honolulu, HI
2001
Co-organizer (with A. Caink, A.
Lobeck and M. Young-Scholten), A
Festschrift Fest for Joe Emonds
University of
Durham
Durham,
England. 19-20 March
1994
Co-organizer (with L. Eubank),
What
is the L2 Initial State?
Symposium at
Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
Concordia and
McGill Universities
Montréal, Canada. 7 October
1994
Participant, Girona International
Summer School in Linguistics
Estudi General
de Girona
Girona,
Spain. 4-29 July
1993
Co-organizer (with M.
Young=Scholten), Generative
Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA)
University of
Durham
Durham,
England. 17-19 September
1992 - 2001 Co-organizer
(with A. Sorace and I.-M. Tsimpli), North
East Language
Acquisition Group (NELAG)
Universities
of Durham, Edinburgh, Newcastle and York (and later,
Cambridge, Heriot-Watt and Stirling) UK
1991
Invited Participant, Workshop on
Formal Issues in Language Acquisition
Max Planck
Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, The
Netherlands. 22-23 June
1991
Co-organizer (with K. Wexler),
Workshop on the Development of
Movement and Inflection
Generative
Linguistics of the Old World (GLOW) Conference
University of
Leiden
Leiden, The
Netherlands. 24 and 28 March
1990
Participant, Girona International
Summer School in Linguistics
Estudi General
de Girona
Girona,
Spain. 2-27 July
1989 - 90
Faculty
Advisor, Boston University
Conference on Language Development
1989
Participant, Summer School in
Comparative Syntax
Lunds
Universitet
Lund,
Sweden. 5-16 June
1989 - 92
Organizer,
Greater Boston Second Language
Acquisition reading/research group
Boston College,
Boston University, Harvard University and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Boston, MA
1983
Participant, Linguistic Society
of
America (LSA) Summer Linguistic Institute
University of
California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles,
CA. Summer term
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA)
Generative Linguistics of the Old World (GLOW)
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Second Language Acquisition/Processing and
Linguistic Theory
Child Second Language Acquisition
Relation between First and Second Language
Acquisition/Processing
Metalinguistic Knowledge and Second Language
Acquisition Theory
(Germanic) Syntax
Relation between Second Language Acquisition Theory
and Pedagogy
Cognitive Science
REFEREES
Prof. Joseph EMONDS
101 Saint Johns Park
Blackheath
London SE3 7JW
ENGLAND
e-mail: jeemonds@hotmail.com
Prof. Nina HYAMS
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Los Angeles
3125 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095 1543
U.S.A.
e-mail: hyams@humnet.ucla.edu
Prof. Mary Catherine O'CONNOR
Director, Program in Applied Linguistics
Boston University
605 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.
e-mail: mco@bu.edu
Prof. Lydia WHITE
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085 Dr. Penfield Avenue
Montréal, Québec H3A 1A7
CANADA
e-mail: lydia.white@mcgill.ca