The 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) conference will take place at the UIUC campus May 2-4, 2024 in the Levis Faculty Center.

GASLA-17 is a venue for linguists to present theoretically informed research on second language acquisition. The target audience includes linguists - both faculty and graduate students - from UIUC and other universities around the world.

We are honored to welcome the following invited speakers: 

  • Dora Alexopoulou, University of Cambridge
  • Kiel Christianson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Theres Grüter, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
  • Silvia Perpiñán, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Registration is open on the GASLA-17 Website. Registration is free for all UIUC student and faculty. 

The conference schedule can be found here. 

We are looking forward to seeing you all at GASLA-17!