Kholoud A. Al-ThubaitiUmm Al-Qura University · Department of English Language
Kholoud A. Al-Thubaiti
PhD in Linguistics
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Introduction
Adopting a generative approach to SLA, I investigate the development of (morpho)-syntactic and semantic representations in L2 grammars. I am very much interested in explaining the phenomenon of non-target-like selective divergence regardless of many years of exposure to the target language. I also examine possible long-term age effects in L2 acquisition particularly in instructed settings.
Additional affiliations
August 2019 - present
January 2016 - December 2016
December 2010 - August 2019
Education
October 2007 - June 2010
October 2005 - July 2007
January 2000 - December 2003
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Publications (9)
This chapter has thirteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguistics; 10. New Englishes and Creolistics; 11. Second Language Acquisition; 12. English as a Lingua Fr...
This study investigates whether second language (L2) speakers can pre-empt a first language (L1) property which involves uninterpretable features, such as resumption. The Interpretability Hypothesis predicts persistent L1 effects in L2 grammars because uninterpretable features resist resetting beyond some critical period (Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulo...
This study examines whether the second language acquisition (L2A) of syntactic properties at the interfaces is problematic for L2 learners. English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) was tested as an interface property which involves feature interpretability. Two subtle contrasts of VPE at different grammar-internal interfaces were examined: (a) copula be...
This chapter reports on a study that investigates whether L1 Arabic speakers
can acquire the English aspectual contrast between the present simple (e.g.
‘plays’) and present progressive (e.g. ‘is playing’). The study was conducted
with 143 Saudi Arabic college students of English and eleven native speakers.
Following their performance on a cloze te...
This chapter reports on a study examining the long-term effects of input and age of L2 learning on the English proficiency of Saudi Arabic speakers. The participants were 132 adult college students who had started learning English in school at different ages. Findings show that input measures are stronger predictors of performance than is age of L2...
This thesis reports a study of the effects on long-term proficiency of starting to learn English in a minimal input setting (the classroom) at different ages. A total of 132 Saudi Arabian college students participated in the study, 50 of whom started learning English in elementary school (3-11 years) and 82 in middle school (12-13 years), along wit...
English be and have stranding differ under vP ellipsis: *John slept and Mary was too vs. Peter saw your parents last week, but he hasn't since. Rouveret (2006) claims that -ing has an interpretable progressive feature that cannot be elided (unless recoverable), whereas -en has an uninterpretable perfective feature which deletes freely. In Arabic, s...
A recent account of fossilization in adult second language (L2) grammars is
the ‘Interpretability Hypothesis’ (Hawkins & Hattori, 2006; Tsimpli &
Dimitrakopoulou, 2007). It proposes that properties associated with
uninterpretable features not already activated in the first language (L1)
grammar will pose a learnability problem for older L2 speakers...
