Current and former McGillians were well represented at the 18th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference which took place at the University of Cambridge, April 16-18 2026.
Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) & Lydia White presented a paper on Relativized Minimality and Featural Mismatches in L2: Is There an Age Advantage?
Yanran Mou (BA 2024) & Heather Goad presented a poster on Accessing L2 Phonological Knowledge – The Case of English Stress Computation by Mandarin L1s.
Xuanda Chen (PhD 2025) & Heather Goad presented a poster on L2 Learners Use Both Phonological Behavior and Contrast to Build Novel Representations.
