Liz Smeets is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. Her research interests include the second language acquisition of the syntax-semantics interface, the syntax-discourse interface and the syntax-prosody interface. Most of her projects focus on conditions for language transfer on interface phenomena in bilingual populations (adult L2 learners and bilingual children). She received her Ph.D degree from the Department of Linguistics at McGill in 2020 and two BAs in Linguistics and Italian Language and Culture from Utrecht University in 2012.

Liz is also interested in how knowledge and strategies from linguistics can help students and language instructors in the foreign language classroom to improve their understanding of how languages are structured, how they function and how they are learned.

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Liz Smeets is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. Her research interests include the second language acquisition of the syntax-semantics interface, the syntax-discourse interface and the syntax-prosody interface. Most of her projects focus on conditions for language transfer on interface phenomena in bilingual populations (adult L2 learners and bilingual children). She received her Ph.D degree from the Department of Linguistics at McGill in 2020 and two BAs in Linguistics and Italian Language and Culture from Utrecht University in 2012.

Liz is also interested in how knowledge and strategies from linguistics can help students and language instructors in the foreign language classroom to improve their understanding of how languages are structured, how they function and how they are learned.

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