Dr. Megan Smith

Megan Smith is a linguist with an interest in second language (L2) acquisition, and particularly in L2 syntax and psycholinguistics. Her research focuses on whether non-native speakers acquire different features of L2 grammars (e.g., whether non-native Japanese speakers know that case marking in obligatory on nouns in Japanese), and whether they can use this knowledge in online processing of language. Her current research investigates whether non-native Japanese speakers rely on the same grammatical information to process Japanese sentences as native speakers do. She is working on an introductory book on Second Language Acquisition as well as a project comparing different types of exposure tasks.