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
  • L2 sentence processing
  • L3 acquisition

Selected Publications:

Zenker, F. & B.D. Schwartz. 2023. Helpful regardless of acceptability: Resumption eases comprehension of difficult‑to‑process relative clauses in the L2 English of L1‑Korean and L1‑Mandarin speakers. In P. Gappmayr & J. Kellogg (eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press, pp. 797–810.

Zhong, J.C. & B.D. Schwartz. 2023. Transfer in Cantonese‑English learners' L3 Mandarin. In P. Gappmayr & J. Kellogg (eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press, pp. 811–824.

Kim, K. & B.D. Schwartz. 2022. Learnability in the acquisition of the English tough construction by L1‑Korean adult and child L2 learners. Second Language Research 38.2: 259–287.

Ohba, A. & B.D. Schwartz. 2022. Sluicing in the L2 English of L1 Japanese speakers. In Y. Gong & F. Kpogo (eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press, pp. 586–599.

Wang, J. & B.D. Schwartz. 2022. Detecting definiteness: On the L2 acquisition of the Mandarin plural marker –men. In Y. Gong & F. Kpogo (eds.) Proceedings of the 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press, pp. 837–850.

Yusa, M. & B.D. Schwartz. 2022. L2 reconstruction effects in negated disjunction under pseudoclefts. In K. Horie, K. Akita, Y. Kubota, D.Y. Oshima & A. Utsugi (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 29. CSLI Publications, pp. 291–305.

Schwartz, B.D. & R.A. Sprouse. 2021a. The Full Transfer/Full Access model and L3 cognitive states. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11.1: 1–29.  [Invited keynote epistemological article]  (refereed) 

Schwartz, B.D. & R.A. Sprouse. 2021b. In defense of 'copying and restructuring'. Second Language Research 37.3: 489–493. [Invited commentary on keynote article]  (refereed)

Schwartz, B.D. & R.A. Sprouse. 2021c. Making models, making predictions. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11.1: 116–129.  [Response to the 15 commentaries on our invited keynote epistemological article]

Kim, K., W. O’Grady & B.D. Schwartz. 2018. Case in Heritage Korean. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8.2: 252–282.

Tanaka, N. & B.D. Schwartz. 2018. Investigating relative clause island effects in native and nonnative adult speakers of Japanese. In A.B. Bertolini & M.J. Kaplan (eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press, pp. 750–763.

Schwartz, B.D. & R.A. Sprouse. 2017. The role of Universal Grammar in nonnative language acquisition. In I. Roberts (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar. Oxford University Press, pp. 289–304.

Zenker, F. & B.D. Schwartz. 2017. Topicalization from adjuncts in English vs. Chinese vs. Chinese‑English Interlanguage. In M. LaMendola & J. Scott (eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press, pp. 806–819.

Miyao, M. & B.D. Schwartz. 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). Cascadilla Press, pp. 136–150.

Wen, Z. & B.D. Schwartz. 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). Cascadilla Press, pp. 128–139.

Chu, W. & B.D. Schwartz. 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. Cascadilla Press. pp. 74–86.

Schwartz, B.D. & R.A. Sprouse. 2013. Generative approaches and the poverty of the stimulus. In J.  Herschensohn & M. Young‑Scholten (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press, pp. 137–158.

Park, K.‑S. & B.D. Schwartz. 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. Cascadilla Press, pp. 414–426.