In:New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference
Edited by Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 71] 2026
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Introduction
Tania Ionin
Silvina Montrul
Part 1.Adult SLA
Acquisition of universal constraints by Japanese learners of
English: A case of the that-trace effect involving adverbial
intervention
Kasumi Takahashi
Yuichi Ono
Pronoun interpretation in L1 and L2 English: When native speaker performance is unexpected
Lydia White
Heather Goad
Guilherme D. Garcia
Natália B. Guzzo
Liz Smeets
Jiajia Su
L1 transfer or default local readings for reflexives? Evidence from Turkish and English
Burcu Boran
Liz Smeets
The effect of real-world knowledge on the L2 acquisition
of English inverse scope
of English inverse scope
Baorui Xu
Theres Grüter
Bonnie D. Schwartz
Acquiring the scope of logical connectives and negation
in Japanese as a second language
in Japanese as a second language
Tokiko Okuma
How adults interpret disjunction under negation
in native and nonnative Korean
in native and nonnative Korean
Youngin Lee
Understanding some in context: Inhibitory control predicts L2 sensitivity to QUD
Glenn Starr
Part 2.Bilingual populations
Spanish modal infinitival constructions in English–Spanish bilingual
grammars: Acquisition despite poverty of stimulus?
grammars: Acquisition despite poverty of stimulus?
Vanesa Alonso González
Juana M. Liceras
Examining the relationship between filler words and
code-switching
Amelia Tighe
A study of code-switched compound verbs in Persian-Dutch
bilinguals
Luisa Meroni
Mona Hashemi Nejad
Andrea Gualmini
Part 3.Third language acquisition and multilingualism
Morphosyntactic cues primarily, and language use secondarily,
determine transfer source in the L3 ‘Grappling Period’
determine transfer source in the L3 ‘Grappling Period’
Hunter Brakovec
The importance of individual data in L3 acquisition: A reanalysis of Mitrofanova,
Leivada, and Westergaard (2023)
Hunter Brakovec
Mike Iverson
Jeanne McGill
Bonnie D. Schwartz
Rex A. Sprouse
Acquiring expressions of generic meanings in L3 Norwegian
Marta Velnić
Roumyana Slabakova
Anne Dahl
Redeploying dimensions and learning gestures in the acquisition
of new sounds: Glottalized consonants in Mayan languages
of new sounds: Glottalized consonants in Mayan languages
Brett C. Nelson
Antonio A. González Poot
John Archibald
Darin Flynn
Part 4.New directions
Big educational language learning data (BELL): Any good for Generative SLA research?
Theodora Alexopoulou
