Barbara Schulz

Assistant Professor
Office: 310 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2258
schulzb@mailbox.sc.edu

Personal Website

Education

Ph.D in Second Language Acquisition, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Specialization Areas

• Second Language Acquisition
• Linguistics

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• Linguistics 301: The English Language
• Linguistics 791: Theory and Methodology in Second Language Acquisition
  

Current Research Project(s)

My primary interest is in second language acquisiton (L2) theory. In particular, I try to shed light on how a second language is represented in the mind and whether or not an L2 linguistic system is fundamentally different from a native linguistic system. I am also interested in the question to what extent L2 findings can inform lingusitic theory in general. I'm currently working on two bigger issues. The first question I try to address is, to what extent L2 linguistic behavior reflects underlying grammatical competence and to what extent it might (merely) result from limited processing resources. So I am investigating both the interlanguage grammar (and here I'm focussing on syntax) and the processing strategies of L2 learners. The second area that I'm working on is whether or not indirect negative evidence can serve as a source of information for L2 development.

Publications and Presentations

Recent work includes:

“Wh-scope marking in English interlanguage grammars: Transfer and processing effects on the second language acquisition of complex wh-questions. Unpublished doctoral Dissertation, University of Hawai‘i.
Available at: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bschulz

“What does the stop-making-sense task show how wh-scope marking questions are processed in English?”
Poster presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY Graduate Center, March 24, 2006.