Lydia White

Lydia White (born 1946) is a Canadian linguist and educator in the area of second language acquisition (SLA).

[3][4] Her PhD dissertation, published in book form as Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition, concerns the theoretical problem of first language acquisition from the perspective of generative grammar.

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.

In 2010 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Arts and Humanities.

[6] In 2012, she received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.