lori.repetti
Lori Repetti
Ph.D. 1989, University of California, Los Angeles
Tel. (631) 632-7446
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Tel. (631) 632-7446
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º I am interested in phonology, in particular, prosodic features, the interaction between phonology-morphology and phonology-syntax of Italian, minor Romance varieties spoken in Italy (i. e., the Italian dialects), and other Romance languages. My recent research includes the different realization of clitic pronouns in preverbal and postverbal position in Northern Italian dialects, and the stressing of clitic pronouns in Southern Italian dialects and other Romance varieties (Balearic Catalan, Gascon, Ligurian, Sardinian, Corsican, etc.). I work with syntacticians on these projects (Prof. Anna Cardinaletti and Prof. Francisco Ordóñez, respectively), and we investigate the behavior of clitics in various phonological and syntactic environments (segmental context, proclitic/enclitic, single clitic/clitic cluster, location of stress, etc.). The latter project is supported by an NSF grant (“Stress Patterns with Clitics and Weak Pronominals in Post-Verbal Position in Romance Languages”) awarded to me and Prof. Francisco Ordóñez. I am also interested in the way borrowed words are adapted to the phonological and morphological structures of Italian, and I am beginning a project on the phonetic correlates of stress in Sardinian with a graduate student in my department, Miran Kim. Most of the data I use are collected during field work, and I have done extensive field work in northern Italy (Liguria, Emilia, Romagna) and southern Italy (Campania, Basilicata).
♠ RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Books • Articles
♠ RECENT TALKS: • Invited scholarly talks • Conference talks
♠ ROMANCE LINGUISTICS LECTURE SERIES : • Workshop on Field Research (April 17, 2009), • An Afternoon of Romance Phonology (March 26, 20008) • Workshop on Romance Clitics (May 11, 2005) • Lectures.
♠ DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Linguistics Club (undergraduates) activities and achievements (• Events • Honors Program & Honors thesis • Students advanced to Linguistics graduate programs)
♠ DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
I have been the Director of Undergraduate Studies in my department for the past few years, and I enjoy immensely the work I do with the undergraduates. We have a remarkable group of students who win all sorts of awards, are active in university affairs, and run a very active Linguistics Club. Within the past year the Club has hosted numerous events, including the following:
Many of our recent majors go on to:
♥ ROMANCE LINGUISTICS LECTURE SERIES
Prof. Francisco Ordóñez and I run a Romance Linguistics lecture series which is co-sponsored by the Graduate School, the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Center for Italian Studies. Some recent events include:
1. Workshop on Field Research(April 17, 2009)
José Camacho (Rutgers University), José Elias-Ulloa (SUNY, Stony Brook), Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Francisco Ordóñez (SUNY, Stony Brook), Lori Repetti (SUNY, Stony Brook), Liliana Sanchez (Rutgers University), Christina Tortora (CUNY, Graduate Center)
2. An Afternoon of Romance Phonology (March 26, 2008)
- Eulàlia Bonet (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “Phonology-morphology-syntax interactions in plural formation in Catalan”
- Joan Mascarò (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “A prosodic analysis of stress-dependent harmony”
3. Workshop on Romance Clitics (May 11, 2005)
- Susana Huidobro (SUNY, Stony Brook) “Verum Focus realization on Enclitics”
- Francisco Ordonez and Lori Repetti (SUNY, Stony Brook) “Stressed Enclitics?”
- Richard Kayne (NYU) “Silent Clitics”
- Oana Ciucivara (NYU) “New Insights into the Person Case Constraint”
- Christina Tortora (CUNY, Graduate Center) “Aspects of object clitic placement in Borgomanerese”
4. Lectures by
- Richard Kayne (NYU) “Harris and Halle (2005) Meets Syntax” (April 16, 2008)
- Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) “Interfaces Between Syntax and Discourse in Italian-English Bilingual Language Development” (November 1, 2006)
- Viviane Deprez (Rutgers University) “On the Conceptual Role of Number Marking: Evidence From French-Based Creoles” (May 10, 2006)
- Stephen Anderson (Yale)“Clitics and Verb-Second in Surmiran (Romantsch)” (October 28, 2005)
♥ RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 212), Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000 (ed. by Lori Repetti)
Articles:
“Phrase-Level and Word-Level Syllables: Resyllabification and the Prosodization of Clitics” Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations, Baris Kabak and Janet Grijzenhout, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009, to appear (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti)
“Functional vowels in main questions in Northern Italian dialects” Going Romance, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollenbrandse and Brigitte Kampers-Manhe, eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009, to appear (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti)
“Proclitic vs Enclitic Pronouns in Northern Italian Dialects and the Null-Subject Parameter” Syntactic Variation: The Dialects of Italy, Roberta D’Alessandro, Adam Ledgeway, Ian Roberts, eds. Cambridge: CUP, 2009, to appear (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Gemination in English Loans in American Varieties of Italian” Loan Phonology, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008, to appear.
“Vocali epentetiche nella morfologia dell’italiano e dei dialetti italiani” Miscellanea di studi linguistici offerti a Laura Vanelli da amici e allievi padovani, Roberta Maschi, Nicoletta Penello, and Piera Rizzolatti, eds., Udine: Forum Editrice, 116-126, 2007 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian” Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and Perspectives, Randall S. Gess and Deborah Arteaga, eds., Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 209-239, 2006.
“Stressed Enclitics?” New Analyses on Romance Linguistics: Volume II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology (Selected Papers from the 35th LSRL 35) Jean-Pierre Montreuil, ed., Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 167-181, 2006 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Come i sostantivi inglesi diventano italiani: la morfologia e la fonologia dei prestiti” Italiano e inglese a confronto, Anna-Vera Sullam Calimani, ed., Firenze: Cesati, 31-42, 2003.
♥ RECENT TALKS
Invited scholarly lectures
“Cio' che il piemontese ci puo' insegnare della morfo-fonologia dell'italiano” Rescontr di Studi Piemontesi, Ivrea (Italy), May 8-9, 2004.
“Null subjects and inversion phenomena in Italian and northern Italian dialects” Third Workshop on the Null-Subject Parameter and Related Issues, Cambridge University (Great Britain), December 15, 2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Morphological Epenthesis” Penn State University, April 17, 2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
Conference talks
“Functional Vowels in Main Questions in Northern Italian Dialects” Going Romance, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 11-12, 2008 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“The Prosodization of Subject Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects” Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations, Siegen, Germany, February 28-March 2, 2007 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Gemination in English Loans in American Varieties of Italian” Going Romance (Workshop on Loan Phonology), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 7-8, 2006.
“Stressed Enclitics” Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, Cambridge, UK, April 21-22, 2006 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Proclitic vs Enclitic Pronouns in Northern Italian Dialects” Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, Cambridge, UK, April 21-22, 2006 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Stressed Enclitics?” Workshop on Romance Clitics, SUNY, Stony Brook, May 11, 2005 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Patterns of Stress Shift in Enclisis in Romance” XV Colloquium on Generative Grammar Barcelona, Spain, April 4-6, 2005 (co-authored Francisco Ordóñez).
“Stressed Enclitics” LSRL 35 (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages), University of Texas, Austin, February 24-27, 2005 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Null subjects and inversion phenomena in Italian and northern Italian dialects” Conference on Null Subjects and Parametric Variation, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 18-19, 2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Word-Final Epenthetic Vowels and Morphology in Italian and Italian Dialects” LSRL (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages), University of Indiana, April 24-27, 2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
- Last updated: June 7. 2009
♠ RECENT PUBLICATIONS: • Books • Articles
♠ RECENT TALKS: • Invited scholarly talks • Conference talks
♠ ROMANCE LINGUISTICS LECTURE SERIES : • Workshop on Field Research (April 17, 2009), • An Afternoon of Romance Phonology (March 26, 20008) • Workshop on Romance Clitics (May 11, 2005) • Lectures.
♠ DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Linguistics Club (undergraduates) activities and achievements (• Events • Honors Program & Honors thesis • Students advanced to Linguistics graduate programs)
♠ DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
I have been the Director of Undergraduate Studies in my department for the past few years, and I enjoy immensely the work I do with the undergraduates. We have a remarkable group of students who win all sorts of awards, are active in university affairs, and run a very active Linguistics Club. Within the past year the Club has hosted numerous events, including the following:
- • A special lecture for undergraduates by Prof. Daniel Everett on his work on Piraha (12/08)
• A screening of a documentary film on an endangered language of the Caucusus and a follow-up discussion with Prof. Alice Harris and Andrei Antonenko (11/08)
• A panel discussion on study abroad opportunities by students majoring in Linguistics who have studied abroad (10/08)
• A workshop on databases in Linguistics run by one of our undergraduate students, Darryl McAdams (03/09)
• An Arabic calligraphy event (03/09)
• A workshop on careers in ESL presented by Margo Delli Carpini (04/09)
• An introduction to careers in speech pathology presented by Charlene Poulos (05/09)
- • Yaser Rad (5/2008) “Adjectival and Possessive Constructions in the East and West: Nominal Phrase Structure Analysis of Pashtu, Farsi and the Rest” (Prof. Richard Larson)
• Chris La Terza (8/2008) “The Definite Article” (Prof. Richard Larson)
• Amanda Blustein (5/2009) “Differences among Reading Levels” (Prof. Mark Aronoff)
• Emily Fedele (5/2009) “Clitic Placement and Restructuring in Standard Italian and Italian Dialects” (Prof. Lori Repetti and Prof. Francisco Ordóñez)
• Christina Hagedorn (5/2009) “True Clitics and Weak Pronouns in Seneghese Sardinian” (Prof. Lori Repetti)
• Darryl McAdams (5/2009) “A Theory of Syntax” (Prof. Richard Larson)
Many of our recent majors go on to:
- • Graduate programs in Linguistics - Chris La Terza ’08 – University of Maryland, Christina Hagedorn ’09 – USC, Emily Fedele ’09 – Cambridge University, Natalia Buitrago ’09 – Cornell University, Darryl McAdams ’09 – University of Maryland
• Graduate programs in speech pathology - Charlene Poulos ’07 – Columbia University, Ji-Su Sung '08 – Columbia University
• Medical school - Yaser Rad ‘08
• Careers in teaching, especially in TESOL, Careers in publishing, etc.
♥ ROMANCE LINGUISTICS LECTURE SERIES
Prof. Francisco Ordóñez and I run a Romance Linguistics lecture series which is co-sponsored by the Graduate School, the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Center for Italian Studies. Some recent events include:
1. Workshop on Field Research(April 17, 2009)
José Camacho (Rutgers University), José Elias-Ulloa (SUNY, Stony Brook), Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Francisco Ordóñez (SUNY, Stony Brook), Lori Repetti (SUNY, Stony Brook), Liliana Sanchez (Rutgers University), Christina Tortora (CUNY, Graduate Center)
2. An Afternoon of Romance Phonology (March 26, 2008)
- Eulàlia Bonet (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “Phonology-morphology-syntax interactions in plural formation in Catalan”
- Joan Mascarò (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) “A prosodic analysis of stress-dependent harmony”
3. Workshop on Romance Clitics (May 11, 2005)
- Susana Huidobro (SUNY, Stony Brook) “Verum Focus realization on Enclitics”
- Francisco Ordonez and Lori Repetti (SUNY, Stony Brook) “Stressed Enclitics?”
- Richard Kayne (NYU) “Silent Clitics”
- Oana Ciucivara (NYU) “New Insights into the Person Case Constraint”
- Christina Tortora (CUNY, Graduate Center) “Aspects of object clitic placement in Borgomanerese”
4. Lectures by
- Richard Kayne (NYU) “Harris and Halle (2005) Meets Syntax” (April 16, 2008)
- Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) “Interfaces Between Syntax and Discourse in Italian-English Bilingual Language Development” (November 1, 2006)
- Viviane Deprez (Rutgers University) “On the Conceptual Role of Number Marking: Evidence From French-Based Creoles” (May 10, 2006)
- Stephen Anderson (Yale)“Clitics and Verb-Second in Surmiran (Romantsch)” (October 28, 2005)
♥ RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books
Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 212), Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000 (ed. by Lori Repetti)
Articles:
“Phrase-Level and Word-Level Syllables: Resyllabification and the Prosodization of Clitics” Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations, Baris Kabak and Janet Grijzenhout, eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009, to appear (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti)
“Functional vowels in main questions in Northern Italian dialects” Going Romance, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Bart Hollenbrandse and Brigitte Kampers-Manhe, eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009, to appear (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti)
“Proclitic vs Enclitic Pronouns in Northern Italian Dialects and the Null-Subject Parameter” Syntactic Variation: The Dialects of Italy, Roberta D’Alessandro, Adam Ledgeway, Ian Roberts, eds. Cambridge: CUP, 2009, to appear (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Gemination in English Loans in American Varieties of Italian” Loan Phonology, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008, to appear.
“Vocali epentetiche nella morfologia dell’italiano e dei dialetti italiani” Miscellanea di studi linguistici offerti a Laura Vanelli da amici e allievi padovani, Roberta Maschi, Nicoletta Penello, and Piera Rizzolatti, eds., Udine: Forum Editrice, 116-126, 2007 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“The Emergence of Marked Structures in the Integration of Loans in Italian” Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospective and Perspectives, Randall S. Gess and Deborah Arteaga, eds., Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 209-239, 2006.
“Stressed Enclitics?” New Analyses on Romance Linguistics: Volume II: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology (Selected Papers from the 35th LSRL 35) Jean-Pierre Montreuil, ed., Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 167-181, 2006 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Come i sostantivi inglesi diventano italiani: la morfologia e la fonologia dei prestiti” Italiano e inglese a confronto, Anna-Vera Sullam Calimani, ed., Firenze: Cesati, 31-42, 2003.
♥ RECENT TALKS
Invited scholarly lectures
“Cio' che il piemontese ci puo' insegnare della morfo-fonologia dell'italiano” Rescontr di Studi Piemontesi, Ivrea (Italy), May 8-9, 2004.
“Null subjects and inversion phenomena in Italian and northern Italian dialects” Third Workshop on the Null-Subject Parameter and Related Issues, Cambridge University (Great Britain), December 15, 2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Morphological Epenthesis” Penn State University, April 17, 2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
Conference talks
“Functional Vowels in Main Questions in Northern Italian Dialects” Going Romance, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 11-12, 2008 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“The Prosodization of Subject Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects” Phonological Domains: Universals and Deviations, Siegen, Germany, February 28-March 2, 2007 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Gemination in English Loans in American Varieties of Italian” Going Romance (Workshop on Loan Phonology), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 7-8, 2006.
“Stressed Enclitics” Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, Cambridge, UK, April 21-22, 2006 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Proclitic vs Enclitic Pronouns in Northern Italian Dialects” Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, Cambridge, UK, April 21-22, 2006 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Stressed Enclitics?” Workshop on Romance Clitics, SUNY, Stony Brook, May 11, 2005 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Patterns of Stress Shift in Enclisis in Romance” XV Colloquium on Generative Grammar Barcelona, Spain, April 4-6, 2005 (co-authored Francisco Ordóñez).
“Stressed Enclitics” LSRL 35 (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages), University of Texas, Austin, February 24-27, 2005 (co-authored with Francisco Ordóñez).
“Null subjects and inversion phenomena in Italian and northern Italian dialects” Conference on Null Subjects and Parametric Variation, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 18-19, 2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
“Word-Final Epenthetic Vowels and Morphology in Italian and Italian Dialects” LSRL (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages), University of Indiana, April 24-27, 2003 (co-authored with Anna Cardinaletti).
- Last updated: June 7. 2009