Liz Smeets
List of John Benjamins publications for which Liz Smeets plays a role.
Articles
2024 Pronoun interpretation in Italian: Exploring the effects of prosody Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | 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