phonology

This study investigates the controversy surrounding the sensitivity of masked repetition priming to word frequency: while unmasked priming exhibits a frequency attenuation effect, wherein high frequency words yield smaller repetition effects, this phenomenon has been inconsistently reported in masked priming.

Palatalization represents one of the phonological processes that restructured the Romance consonantal inventory the most. In this chapter, we examine the phonological and articulatory complexities underlying this process. We mainly deal with palatalization within Calabrese’s (2005) feature-based phonological model.

This study explores to what extent social cognition impacts early auditory processing. We measured the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) response to three non-linguistic biological sounds (flatulence, coughs and sniffs) that differ in terms of social markedness: flatulence is socially marked, while coughs and sniffs are not.

This strand of my program explores the representational and the computational relationships among phonological, morpho-phonological, and morphological alternations. Morphological and phonological theories have primarily focused on two main questions about alternations.

This strand of my program explores the the amount of information associated with the phonological and morphological representations that are stored in the lexicon. Phonological representations Within phonology, though there is widespread agreement that phonemic representations are composed of articulatory features, there are open questions about exactly how rich these representations should be.

Allomorphic alternations are often accounted for by assuming them to be listed as idiosyncratic lexical entries. This paper analyzes the forms of the determiners (definite, indefinite, and demostratives) and definite prepositions across all Italo-Romance varieties, to show that such a view (for a review on accounts for the definite determiner, see Garrapa 2011) may lead to lose crucial generalizations at the morpho-phonological interface.