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October 2010

Curriculum Vitae

BONNIE D A LE S CHWA R TZ Department of Second Language Studies University of Hawai‘i 1890 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822 USA phone: (808) 956-4916 e-mail: [email protected] 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

B.D. SCHWARTZ, CV, October 2010, page 2 / 37

EXPERIENCE (cont.) 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 speaking 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.


PUBLICATIONS (cont.) 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)


PUBLICATIONS (cont.) CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES (cont.) 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)


PUBLICATIONS (cont.) 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)


PUBLICATIONS (cont.) CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND WORKING PAPERS (cont.) 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)


PUBLICATIONS (cont.) CONFERENCE 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)


AWARDS/HONORS (cont.) 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)


"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)


"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)


"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


INVITED ADDRESSES (cont.) 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


INVITED ADDRESSES (cont.) 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


"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


"An introduction to a generative perspective on L2 acquisition: Some theoretical issues" Institute of Cultural and Linguistics Studies, Keio University Tokyo, Japan. 26 March


"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


"Course on second language acquisition research and syntax" Center for Language Studies, Tilburg University Tilburg, The Netherlands. 18-22 November


"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)


"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)


"Rethinking Johnson & Newport (1991)" Boston, MA. 2 November (with J.H. Ma & J.-H. Kim)


"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)


"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)


PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (cont.) 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)


"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)


"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)


"Evidence for the C-domain in early Interlanguage" University of the Basque Country, San Sebástian, Spain. 11 September (with L. Dekydtspotter & R.A. Sprouse)


"Revisiting the development of verb placement in Chinese-English Interlanguage" University of the Basque Country, San Sebástian, Spain. 9 September (with W. Chu)


"Another look at 'verb raising' in the L2 English of Chinese speakers" Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 17 April (with W. Chu)


"Is CP 'superfluous' in the initial L2 state?" Boston, MA. 10 January (with L. Dekydtspotter & R.A. Sprouse)


"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)


"Pouring the fire with gasoline: Questioning conclusions on L2 argument structure" University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 27 April (with L. Dekydtspotter & R.A. Sprouse)


"Pouring the fire with gasoline: Questioning conclusions on L2 argument structure" San Francisco, CA. 5 January (with L. Dekydtspotter & R.A. Sprouse)


PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (cont.) 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)


"Case, (re-)set, match: Functional features in the L2 German nominal domain" Palmela, Portugal. 16 September (with H. Hopp)


"Linear sequencing strategies or UG-defined hierarchical structures in L2 acquisition? A reply to Meisel" Washington, DC. 7 January (with R.A. Sprouse)


"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)


"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)


"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)


"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)


"In defense of Full Transfer in German-English and French-English Interlanguage: Comparative L2 acquisition research" Boston, MA. 7 November (with R.A. Sprouse)


"Evidence for Full Transfer in German-English Interlanguage" Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 17 October (with R.A. Sprouse)


"Optional Infinitives in L1 acquisition vs. Optional Uninflection in child L2 acquisition" Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. 23 May (with B. Haznedar)


"Distinguishing White from White" McGill University, Montréal, Canada. 9 May)


PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (cont.) 1997 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL):

"Transfer: A tradition in transition" Orlando, FL. 9 March (with R.A. Sprouse)


"Optional Infinitives in child L2 acquisition––Really?" Boston, MA. 3 November (with B. Haznedar)


"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)


"Syntactic theories and conclusions in L2A research" New Orleans, LA. 6 January (with R.A. Sprouse)


"On the L2A of deverbal compounds: Evidence for agreement" Boston, MA. 5 November (with D. Lardiere)


"What UG can (and cannot) account for in nonnative acquisition of morphological inflection" Concordia and McGill Universities, Montréal, Canada. 8 October (with D. Lardiere)


"L2 cognitive states and Absolute L1 Influence" Concordia and McGill Universities, Montréal, Canada. 7 October (with R.A. Sprouse)


"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)


"'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)


"An alternative account of apparent inaccessibility to UG in L2A" Boston, MA. 24 October)


"Evidence in L2A: When input data are and aren't" Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 19 August (with M. Beck & L. Eubank)


PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (cont.) 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)


"On negative evidence not engaging UG: Some positive consequences" University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 2 March (with M. Gubala-Ryzak)


"The Fundamental Difference Hypothesis: A critical evaluation" University of Oregon, Eugene, Eugene, OR. 2 March


"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)


"Explaining the developmental sequence of L2 German negative-placement: A UG-based account" New Orleans, LA. 28 December


"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)


"Developmental sequences: In search of data to test problem-solving vs. UG-based models of SLA" University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, HI. 4 March


"Second language acquisition and the issue of negative evidence" University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 22 February


"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


INVITED PRESENTATIONS (cont.) 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


INVITED PRESENTATIONS (cont.) 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


INVITED PRESENTATIONS (cont.) 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


RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2010 Abstract Referee, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition––North America (GALANA) 2010 Article Referee, Journal of Greek Linguistics 2010 - Member of the Editorial Board, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2009 Abstract Referee, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 2009 - present Co-supervisor, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cologne, Germany 2008 Abstract Referee, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition––North America (GALANA) 2008 Research Grant Application Referee, National Science Foundation, USA 2007 - 09 Abstract Referee, European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) 2007 - 08 Abstract Referee, Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2007 Abstract Referee, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 2007 - 10 Abstract Referee, Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2007 Article Referee, Linguistic Inquiry 2006 Abstract Referee, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition––North America (GALANA) 2006 Abstract Referee, Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) 2006 Article Referee, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2006 Research Grant Application Referee, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands 2005 Abstract Referee, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 2005 - 07 Article 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 Research Grant Application Referee, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands 2003 - 04 Abstract Referee, European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) 2003 Abstract Referee, Generative 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


RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (cont.) 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 Abstract Referee, Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) 1997 Book Proposal Referee, Edward Arnold Publishers 1997 Member, Ph.D. committee, Boston University


RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (cont.) 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 Research Grant Application Referee, The Leverhulme Trust, UK 1996 Research Grant Application Referee, National Science Foundation, USA 1995 Article Referee, Journal of Linguistics 1995 - present Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1995 - 98 External Examiner, M.A. programmes (Language Acquisition; Applied Linguistics), University of Essex 1995 External Examiner, Ph.D. viva, 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 Book Proposal Referee, Edward Arnold Publishers 1994 Member, Ph.D. committee, Boston University 1994 Solicited Consultant (textbook revision), Basil Blackwell Publishers 1994 Solicited Consultant (textbook revision), Routledge 1993 - 2005 Advisor (second language acquisition and linguistics), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 1993 Manuscript Referee, Basil Blackwell Publishers 1993 - present Member of the Editorial Board, Second Language Research 1992 Article Referee, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 1992 - 06 Article Referee, Second Language Research 1992 Book Proposal Referee, Basil Blackwell Publishers 1992 Consultant, Project on Second Language Acquisition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1992 - present Member of the Board of Consulting Editors, The Linguistic Review 1991 - 97 Article Referee, Language Acquisition 1991 Manuscript Referee, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics series, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990 Article Referee, Second Language 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


SUPERVISION (cont.) GRADUATE––M.A. DISSERTATION (DURHAM) (cont.) 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") (cont.)

2001 Keiko Matsunaga (Distinction) Transfer of L1 Causatives in L2 Acquisition of English by Spanish, Chinese and Japanese Speakers

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

Gregg Bailes Wanna Contraction in a British English Environment

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

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

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

Heather Marsden (Distinction) A Study of L1 Influence in the L2 Acquisition of Japanese with respect to a "Poverty of the Stimulus" Phenomenon

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

Nobuko Mikami The Effectiveness of Negative Input Enhancement in the L2 Classroom

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

Alan Sumner (Distinction) The Self-determined Learner and Course Materials


SUPERVISION (cont.) GRADUATE––M.A. DISSERTATION (DURHAM) (cont.) 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") (cont.)

1995 Jagdish Kaur (Distinction) Some Limitations of Classroom Instruction

1994 Ute Bohnacker (Distinction)

Determiner Phrases and Early Child Language Acquisition

Marianna Hordos On the Acquisition of Nominal Suffixation in Hungarian: Two Case Studies

Isa Muxi (Distinction) A Minimalist Approach to Catalan Inflectional Phrases

1993 Rani Mariappan

Wh-question Formation of Malaysian Chinese Students

Celeste Perez (Distinction) "Good Ears"––A Case of Myths or Modules (Implications from Theories of Modularity and Music on L2 Phonology)

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)

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


SUPERVISION (cont.) GRADUATE––PH.D. DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER (cont.) 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)

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])

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)


SUPERVISION (cont.) GRADUATE––PH.D. DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR (cont.) 1993 - 07 12 Ph.D. dissertations (cont.)

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)

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])

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)


ADMINISTRATION (cont.)

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


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


CONFERENCE, INSTITUTE, AND RESEARCH GROUP PARTICIPATION (cont.) 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


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: [email protected]

Prof. Nina HYAMS Department of Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles 3125 Campbell Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 U.S.A.

e-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Mary Catherine O'CONNOR Director, Program in Applied Linguistics Boston University 605 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.


Prof. Lydia WHITE Department of Linguistics McGill University 1085 Dr. Penfield Avenue Montréal, Québec H3A 1A7 CANADA


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