Lori Repetti

About

Lori Repetti is a Distinguished Service Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Her research focuses on phonology, Romance linguistics, and dialectology. Dr. Repetti's work involves the study of phonological systems, language variation, and the linguistic features of Romance languages, contributing to a deeper understanding of dialectal differences and phonological processes within these language groups.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Linguistics
• Sociology
• Mathematics education
• Mathematics
• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Pedagogy
• Biology

Selected publications

• The Phonology and Syntax of Preverbal and Postverbal Subject Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects

  Linguistic Inquiry · 2008-10-01 · 95 citations

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  We argue that preverbal and postverbal subject clitics in northern Italian dialects are the same lexical items. The different forms of proclitics and enclitics can be explained phonologically (i.e., by phonological constraints ranked in a particular order) and by the hypothesis that morphologically neutral vowels may be inserted in final position (what we call morphological epenthesis). The distributional differences in the paradigm derive from a competition between overt clitics and null subjec…

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• Bitonal pitch accent and phonological alignment in Sardinian

  Probus · 2013-09-12 · 24 citations

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  Abstract This study presents new data on pitch accent alignment in Sardinian, a Romance language spoken in Italy. We propose that what has been described as “stress shift” in encliticization processes is not a change in the word level stress , but variation in the association of the pitch accent . Our claim is that word level stress remains in situ, and the falling tune which our data exhibit can be interpreted as a bitonal pitch accent (HL*) associated with the entire verb + enclitic unit: the…

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• The phonology of postverbal pronouns in Romance languages

  Romance languages and linguistic theory · 2016-01-14 · 21 citations

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  In many Romance varieties, the verb in imperative verb + (postverbal) pronoun phrases retains primary stress: Italian/Spanish: [kómpra]/[kómpra-melo] ‘buy!’/‘buy me it!’. However, in others varieties, stress in these phrases may be realized on a different syllable: [kompra-meló], [kompra-mélo], [kompra-mélozo]. In this paper, I address questions that have puzzled linguists for some time: Why is there a stress shift when enclitic pronouns are added to the imperative verb? How is the position of t…

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• Consonant-Final Loanwords and Epenthetic Vowels in Italian

  Catalan Journal of Linguistics · 2012-01-01 · 18 citations

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  The quality of an epenthetic vowel in a particular language may vary depending on segmental and prosodic factors, such as the quality of the surrounding consonants, the quality of other vowels in the word, and the position of the epenthetic vowel within the word. This last factor has received little attention in the literature. I have identified a number of cases in Italian in which the quality of the inserted vowel is determined by its position within the word. Through an in-depth study of loan…

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• Where did all the dialects go? Aspects of the influence of Italian on dialects

  Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies · 2014-05-14 · 14 citations

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  The influence of standard Italian on the minor Romance languages spoken in Italy (i.e. the Italian dialects) permeates all aspects of their grammar. In this article, I provide an example of the way in which Italian prosody can affect dialects, a poorly studied type of influence. I show that a speaker may have a range of options available when speaking ‘dialect,’ including forms that are influenced by Italian to a greater or lesser degree.

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Frequent coauthors

• Veronica Miatto

  Stony Brook University

  26 shared

• Richard S. Kayne

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  26 shared

• Yves Siena

  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  25 shared

• María-Rosa Lloret

  Walter de Gruyter (Germany)

  25 shared

• Magdalena Idzik

  25 shared

• Aniello De Santo

  University of Utah

  25 shared

• Gabriela Alboiu

  Walter de Gruyter (Germany)

  25 shared

• Luiz-Carlos Schwindt

  Walter de Gruyter (Germany)

  25 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  UCLA

  1989

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• Arthur Samuelh-60
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