Martha Young-Scholten
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martha Young-Scholten is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 1568-1491 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9749
Titles
Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz
Edited by Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten
The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] 2006. viii, 222 pp.
Focus on Phonological Acquisition
Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Martha Young-Scholten
The publication of this edited volume comes at a time when interest in the acquisition of phonology by both children learning a first language and adults learning a second is starting to swell. The ten contributions, from established scholars and relative newcomers alike, provide a comprehensive… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 16] 1997. v, 289 pp.
2024 Chapter 8. First exposure to Russian word forms by adult English speakers: Disentangling language‑specific and language‑universal factors Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll, Hracs, Lindsay (ed.), pp. 191–224 | Chapter
How language learners segment (recognise and store words) in the speech stream has typically been explored with children (Jusczyk 1997). Researchers have only recently begun to examine how adults segment an unfamiliar natural language after first exposure without instruction (Gullberg et al.… read more
2013
This paper addresses the fundamental question of whether (or how) functional projections are acquired during the development of syntax. However, rather than concentrating on the actual acquisition of functional projections, we consider the starting point of syntactic development: if functional… read more
2011 8. Yo gusto… Expanding choice or syntactic attrition? Bilingual Youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies, Potowski, Kim and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Article
Whether an individual’s L1 syntax is affected by the acquisition of an L2 in adulthood is under debate. Also debated are the drivers of language change at the community level. Under strict generative views (e.g. Lightfoot 1999), change is led by children when they receive input different from the… read more
2009 Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins, Snape, Neal, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 53–68 | Article
Under Organic Grammar (Vainikka and Young-Scholten 2005; 2007), the building of L2 syntactic structure is constrained by UG in interaction with primary linguistic data. On the basis of verb raising, we argue against the partial UG availability pursued in Hawkins and Chan (1997) in their Failed… read more
2008 The status of subjects in early child L2 English Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 209–235 | Article
Proponents of Full Transfer/Full Access take nominative subject forms in early child L2 English as evidence for initial state functional projections. We discuss early stage longitudinal data from two Farsi-speaking children acquiring English. Our data reveal non-contrastive use of nominative… read more
2007 Minimalism vs. organic syntax Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 319–338 | Article
In this paper, we discuss Minimalism versus Organic Grammar, and define Organic Grammar for syntax (Organic Syntax) as an alternative to theMinimalist Program. We argue that language learners gradually acquire a Master Tree for a particular language that ends up including all possible functional… read more
2006 Introduction Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Miscellaneous
2006 The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic grammar, the basic variety and processability theory Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 77–106 | Article
1998 Morphosyntactic Triggers in Adult SLA Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge, Beck, Maria-Luise (ed.), pp. 89–114 | Article
1997 Current issues in the first and second language acquisition of phonology Focus on Phonological Acquisition, Hannahs, S.J. and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
1995 The negative effects of ‘positive’ evidence on L2 phonology The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford, Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 107–122 | Article
1994 Direct Access to X’-Theory: Evidence from Korean and Turkish adults learning German Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar, Hoekstra, Teun and Bonnie D. Schwartz (eds.), pp. 265–316 | Article