Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) was invited to participate at the biennial conference of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, held at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, from April 16 to April 18, 2026.

Her presentation, titled “Feature Reassembly and Syntactic Constraints in L2 French and English Acquisition,” examines how adult learners restructure grammatical features when acquiring a second language. Drawing on generative approaches to second language acquisition, the study explores how syntactic constraints and feature reconfiguration influence the development of interlanguage systems in both French and English as target languages.