Liz Smeets
List of John Benjamins publications in which Liz Smeets is involved.
2026 L1 transfer or default local readings for reflexives? Evidence from Turkish and English New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 51–73 | Chapter
This study explores the subset — superset relation between English and Turkish through the L2 acquisition of reflexives in both languages. The objective is to investigate whether L2 learners can achieve target-like interpretations of reflexives regardless of their L1 structures or whether they… read more
2026 Pronoun interpretation in L1 and L2 English: When native speaker performance is unexpected New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 33–50 | Chapter
We examine pronoun interpretation in an overt subject language (English) by L2 learners from a null subject L1 (Italian), using a task where participants choose potential antecedents for pronouns in bi-clausal sentences which manipulate presence or absence of stress on the pronoun and presence… read more
2025 Pronoun interpretation in Italian: Exploring the effects of prosody Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:3, pp. 311–341 | Article
We explore potential effects of prosody on pronoun interpretation in Italian, building on previous research which has shown that second language learners/users (L2ers) assign non-target interpretations to overt pronouns. We investigate effects of contrastive stress and pause, proposing that… read more
2022 Feature reconfiguration at the syntax-discourse interface: L2 acquisition of Italian CLLD Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 213–240 | Chapter
This study examines L1 transfer in the L2 acquisition of feature mappings associated with Italian Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) by native speakers of English and Romanian. In Italian, insertion of a clitic after dislocating a direct object is restricted to [+anaphor] objects (López, 2009) and in… read more
2017 Cross-linguistic influence in scope ambiguity: Evidence for acceleration Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk, Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), pp. 181–206 | Chapter
Cross-linguistic influence of interface-conditioned properties in bilingual language acquisition has been reported in a large number of studies and various linguistic domains. While many of these studies have found that cross-linguistic influence can occur in the form of delay, few have shown… read more