This volume contains 18 papers selected from the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006), which was hosted by the University of Calgary. It was held at Alberta's Banff Centre, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, on April 27-30, 2004. The papers address L2 acquisition in speakers of French, English, Chinese, and other languages; the impact of ultrasound technology on L2 acquisition research; and other issues of bilinguality. The complete table of contents is available at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/gasla/8/ along with abstracts and the full papers in PDF format.

This volume has been published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, an imprint of Cascadilla Press. All proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding. There is also free web access to all of the papers in the proceedings through our web site at http://www.lingref.com.