Bonnie D. SchwartzProfessor
PhD, University of Southern California

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Bonnie D. Schwartz

Moore Hall 424
808.956.4916
bdsat symbolhawaii.edu

Areas of Expertise:

  • Generative approaches to language acquisition
  • Age-dependent effects in L2 acquisition

Selected Publications:

Kim, K., O’Grady, W., & Schwartz, B. D. (2018). Case in Heritage Korean. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.

Schwartz, B. D., & Sprouse, R. A. (2017). The role of Universal Grammar in nonnative language acquisition. In I. Roberts (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of Universal Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Miyao, M., & Schwartz, B. D. (2016). Online comprehension of referential expressions in English discourse by Japanese L2ers of English. In D. Stringer, J. Garrett, B. Halloran, & S. Mossman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA 13) (pp. 136–150). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Wen, Z., & Schwartz, B. D. (2014). Fully‑specified L2 processing of negation-aspect interactions in Chinese. In C.-Y. Chu, C. E. Coughlin, B. Lopez Prego, U. Minai, & A. Tremblay (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 5th conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2012) (pp. 128–139). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Chu, W., & Schwartz, B. D.  (2013) The meanings of the wh‑word shenme in the L2 Chinese of English and Korean speakers. In S. Baiz, N. Goldman & R. Hawkes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 1 (pp. 74–86). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Park, K.-S., & Schwartz, B. D. (2013). Dative word-order alternations with respect to givenness in adult L2 Korean. In S. Baiz, N. Goldman, & R. Hawkes (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 2 (pp. 319–331). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Schwartz, B. D., & Sprouse, R. A. (2013). Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus. In J. Herschensohn & M. Young-Scholten (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of second language acquisition (pp. 137–158). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Park, K.‑S,. & Schwartz, B. D. (2012). L1-Korean L2ers’ sensitivity to givenness in the English dative alternation. In A. Biller, E. Chung, & A. Kimball (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 2 (pp. 414–426). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Wen, Z., & Schwartz, B. D. (2012). Task demands and ‘depth’ of L2 processing of subject-verb number agreement. In A. Biller, E. Chung, & A. Kimball (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 2 (pp. 673–685). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Schwartz, B.D. (2011). Parsing up the Interface Hypothesis. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 1(1) , 84–88.