Heather Goad
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085 Dr. Penfield, #320
tel: 514-398-4223
e-mail: heather.goad(at)mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Associate Member
Research Themes
Language Acquisition
Speech Science Modeling
Areas of Expertise
Phonology, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Genetic Dysphasia, Speech Perception
Current Research Interests
My research is broadly concerned with examining the role that highly-articulated representations play in circumscribing the notion ‘possible grammar’ in the acquisition of phonology. In first language acquisition, my current research focusses on the acquisition of constituency in prosodic structure (specifically, the syllabification of left-edge clusters, word-final consonants, and stress). In second language acquisition, my work focusses on trying to find prosodic explanations for asymmetries in the patterns of suppliance of functional morphology (specifically, determiners, tense and agreement morphology), a domain of enquiry for which syntactic explanations are typically sought.
Selected Publications
- Goad H. & Y. Rose, (Eds.)(2003). Segmental-prosodic interaction in phonological development: A comparative investigation. Special issue of Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 48(3/4), 139-452.
- Goad, H. & Rose, Y. (2004). Input elaboration, head faithfulness and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic. In R. Kager, J. Pater, & W.Zonneveld, (Eds.), Constraints in Phonological Acquisition, 109-157. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Goad, H. & Buckley, M. (2006). Prosodic structure in child French: Evidence for the foot. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 5, 109-142. Special Issue on the Acquisition of Romance Languages as First Languages.
- Goad, H. & White, L. (2006). Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: A prosodic approach. Second Language Research, 22, 243-268.
Graduate Students
- Brannen, Kathleen
- Mah, Jen
- Qu, Chen
