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[[File:Dr. Lydia White (McGill University).jpg|thumb|300x300px|Lydia White in Montreal, Canada (2018)]]
'''Lydia White''' (born 1946) is a Canadian linguist and educator in the area of [[second language acquisition]] (SLA).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lydia White - Google Scholar Citations |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IgaiOYIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |access-date=2020-04-06 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> She is [[James McGill]] Professor Emeritus of [[Linguistics]] at [[McGill University]].<ref>[https://www.mcgill.ca/ap-planningbudgets/mcgilldawson/ James McGill / William Dawson Programme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090906165159/http://www.mcgill.ca/ap-planningbudgets/mcgilldawson/ |date=2009-09-06 }}. McGill University. Retrieved on April 19, 2009</ref><ref name="auto">[https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/lydia-white Faculty Page]. McGill University. Retrieved on April 6, 2020</ref>
==Biography==
Her PhD dissertation, published in book form as ''Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition'', concerns [[poverty of the stimulus|the theoretical problem of first language acquisition]] from the perspective of [[generative grammar]]. Her 1989 survey of SLA research, ''Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition'', has become a standard textbook in many university level SLA courses.<ref name="auto1"/> The book puts particular emphasis on research which explores the implications that the theory of linguistic universals (the [[Universal Grammar]] theory) has had upon second language acquisition approaches. In 2003, Lydia White published the book ''Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar'', which extends the claims that the process of second language acquisition is guided and constrained by [[Universal Grammar]].▼
She received her BA in Moral Sciences and Psychology from [[Cambridge University]] in 1969 and PhD in [[linguistics]] from [[McGill University]] in 1980.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alumni |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/people-0/theses |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=Linguistics |language=en}}</ref>
▲Her PhD dissertation, published in book form as ''Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition'', concerns [[poverty of the stimulus|the theoretical problem of first language acquisition]] from the perspective of [[generative grammar]]. Her 1989 survey of SLA research, ''Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition'', has become a standard textbook in many university level SLA courses.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book |last1=Slabakova |first1=Roumyana |title=Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In Honor of Lydia White |last2=Montrul |first2=Silvina |last3=Prévost |first3=Philippe |date=2006 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing}}</ref> The book puts particular emphasis on research which explores the implications that the theory of linguistic universals (the [[Universal Grammar]] theory) has had upon second language acquisition approaches. In 2003, Lydia White published the book ''Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar'', which extends the claims that the process of second language acquisition is guided and constrained by [[Universal Grammar]].
==Books==▼
== Honors and distinctions ==
In 2010 she was elected as a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] in the Academy of Arts and Humanities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Royal Society of Canada |url=https://rsc-src.ca/en/fellows-0 |accessdate=April 3, 2019 |website=Royal Society of Canada}}</ref> In 2012, she received the [[Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/boardofgovernors/archives/queen-elizabeth-ii-diamond-jubilee-medal |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=Board of Governors |language=en}}</ref>
She currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals ''Language Acquisition'', ''Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism'', and ''[[Second Language Research]]''.<ref name="auto" /> Together with [[Roumyana Slabakova]], she is also co-editor of the book series ''Language Acquisition and Language Disorders''.<ref name="auto" /><ref name="auto1" />
A [[Festschrift]] in her honor, ''Inquiries in Linguistic Development'', was published in 2006.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191931880 |title=Inquiries in linguistic development : in honor of Lydia White |date=2006 |publisher=John Benjamins |others=Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul, Philippe Prévost, Lydia White |isbn=978-90-272-9353-4 |location=Amsterdam |oclc=191931880}}</ref>
==Selected publications==
▲===Books===
*"Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition", 1982, Dordrecht: Foris
*"Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition", 1989, Amsterdam: John Benjamins
*"Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar", 2003, New York: Cambridge University Press
===Articles===
Lydia White has edited special issues of several leading journals in the field, and authored many articles in ''Language Learning'', ''Studies in Second Language Acquisition'', ''[[Second Language Research]]'', and ''Language Acquisition''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lydia White {{!}} Semantic Scholar |url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Lydia-White/49395462 |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=www.semanticscholar.org |language=en}}</ref> Some notable examples include the following:
*Prévost, Philippe and Lydia White. 2000. "Missing surface inflection or impairment in second language acquisition? Evidence from tense and agreement." ''Second Language Research'' 16: 103-133.
*White, Lydia. 1991. "Adverb placement in second language acquisition: Some effects of positive and negative evidence in the classroom." ''Second Language Research'' 7: 133-161.
*White, Lydia. 1985. "The "pro-drop" parameter in adult second language learning." ''Language Learning'' 35: 47-62.
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McGill University. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090906165159/http://www.mcgill.ca/ap-planningbudgets/mcgilldawson/ James McGill / William Dawson Programme]. McGill University, Associate Provost (Planning and Budgets). Retrieved on April 19, 2009
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*[http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=15379 John Benjamins Page]
*[http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/pacslrf/white.html Biography at the University of Hawaii]
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