Heather Goad, Associate Professor
Specializations: Phonology, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Specific Language Impairment
PhD University of Southern California

Contact information

Email: Heather Goad
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield, #320
Office Hours: Tuesday 15:00-17:00
Phone: 514-398-4223
Web: www.arts.mcgill.ca/linguistics/faculty/goad/index.html

Major publications

• Goad, Heather and Lydia White. 2006. Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: A prosodic approach. Second Language Research 22:243-268.
• Goad, Heather and Yvan Rose. 2004. Input elaboration, head faithfulness and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic. In René Kager, Joe Pater, and Wim Zonneveld, eds., Constraints in phonological acquisition, 109-157. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Goad, Heather and Yvan 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, Heather. 1998. Plurals in SLI: Prosodic deficit or morphological deficit? Language Acquisition 7:247-284.
• Curtin, Suzanne, Heather Goad and Joe Pater. 1998. Phonological transfer and levels of representation: The perceptual acquisition of Thai voice and aspiration by English and French speakers. Second Language Research 14:389-405.