2026 Lydia White: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	47	3269	3009	190	180	130	17482

Research.com Recognitions

2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Overview

Lydia White is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of linguistics, developmental and educational psychology, as well as areas intersecting with artificial intelligence and oncology. Their work encompasses a range of subfields, including language and linguistics, language development and disorders, and multilingual education and policy.

The scientist's published research spans several topical areas, including:

Language Development and Disorders
Multilingual Education and Policy
Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Frequent collaborators of Lydia White include Julie Auger, Heather Newell, Daniel Siddiqi, Tim Raine, and Natália Brambatti Guzzo.

Publication venues frequently hosting Lydia White's work are:

The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique
Second language Research
Gut
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
BMJ Open Gastroenterology

Selected recent papers by Lydia White encompass a range of topics and years:

"British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on colorectal surveillance in inflammatory bowel disease," published in Gut, 2025
"PARSING AMBIGUOUS RELATIVE CLAUSES IN L2 ENGLISH," Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
"Intervention in relative clauses: Effects of relativized minimality on L2 representation and processing," Second language Research, 2020
"Update from 2010 (standard operating procedure): protocol for the 2024 British Society of Gastroenterology Guidelines on colorectal surveillance in inflammatory bowel disease," BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 2024
"Should linguistics be applied and, if so, how?," Language Teaching, 2022

Lydia White was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010, recognized by the Academy of the Arts and Humanities.

Best Publications

Universal Grammar and second language acquisition

Lydia White

1972
Citations
Missing Surface Inflection or Impairment in second language acquisition? Evidence from tense and agreement

Philippe Prévost;Lydia White

1272
Citations
Adverb placement in second language acquisition: some effects of positive and negative evidence in the classroom:

Lydia White

1241
Citations
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

Lydia White

1059
Citations
Against Comprehensible Input: the Input Hypothesis and the Development of Second-language Competence1

Lydia White

923
Citations
How native is near-native? The issue of ultimate attainment in adult second language acquisition

Lydia White;Fred Genesee

852
Citations
THE “PRO-DROP” PARAMETER IN ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Lydia White

767
Citations
Input Enhancement and L2 Question Formation.

Lydia White;Nina Spada;Patsy M. Lightbown;Leila Ranta

623
Citations
Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

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619
Citations
Positive Evidence and Preemption in the Second Language Classroom

Martha Trahey;Lydia White

576
Citations
Gender and number agreement in nonnative Spanish

Lydia White;Elena Valenzuela;Martyna Kozlowska–Macgregor;Yan-Kit Ingrid Leung

527
Citations
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and routine specialist care with and without cognitive behaviour therapy in adolescents with major depression: randomised controlled trial

Ian Goodyer;Bernadka Dubicka;Paul Wilkinson;Raphael Kelvin

455
Citations
Fossilization in Steady State L2 Grammars: Persistent Problems with Inflectional Morphology.

Lydia White

409
Citations
The Verb-Movement Parameter in Second Language Acquisition

Lydia White

327
Citations
UG or not UG, that is the question: a reply to Clahsen and Muysken

Jean duPlessis;Doreen Solin;Lisa Travis;Lydia White

322
Citations
The acquisition of the dative alternation: unlearning overgeneralizations.

Irene Mazurkewich;Lydia White

299
Citations
Second language acquisition at the interfaces

Lydia White

297
Citations
On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language

Lydia White

285
Citations
Ultimate Attainment of L2 Inflection: Effects of L1 Prosodic Structure

Heather Goad;Lydia White

278
Citations
Missing Inflection in L2 Acquisition: Defective Syntax or L1-Constrained Prosodic Representations?

Heather Goad;Lydia White;Jeffrey Steele

276
Citations
L2 Acquisition of Spanish DPs: the status of grammatical features.

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito;L. White

274
Citations
Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: a prosodic approach

Heather Goad;Lydia White

268
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvina Montrul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Roumyana Slabakova University of Southampton

Nina Spada University of Toronto

Fred Genesee McGill University

Harald Clahsen University of Potsdam

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