Robert Fiorentino

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert Fiorentino is involved.

Journal

The Mental Lexicon

Edited by Harald Baayen, Melanie J. Bell, Jessica Nieder and Vito Pirrelli

ISSN 1871-1340 | E‑ISSN 1871‑1375

Feroce, Nick, Robert Fiorentino, Lauren Covey and Alison Gabriele 2020 Chapter 7. Neural evidence for the processing of referential ambiguity and referential failure in Spanish Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego and Idoia Elola (eds.), pp. 153–174 | Chapter

The present study uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine how native Spanish speakers comprehend overt pronouns in two referentially challenging contexts: sentences in which a pronoun has two gender-matching antecedents (referential ambiguity), and sentences in which there are no… read more

Fiorentino, Robert, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Natalie S. Pak, María Teresa Martínez García and Caitlin Coughlin 2015 Dissociating morphological and form priming with novel complex word primes: Evidence from masked priming, overt priming, and event-related potentials The Mental Lexicon 10:3, pp. 413–434 | Article

Recent research suggests that visually-presented words are initially morphologically segmented whenever the letter-string can be exhaustively assigned to existing morphological representations, but not when an exhaustive parse is unavailable; e.g., priming is observed for both hunter → HUNT and… read more

Gabriele, Alison, Robert Fiorentino and Adrienne Johnson 2015  Attentional control and prediction in native and non-native speakers  Epistemological issue with keynote article “The role of language processing in language acquisition” by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer, pp. 470–475 | Commentary

Gabriele, Alison, Robert Fiorentino and José Alemán Bañón 2013  Examining second language development using event-related potentials: A cross-sectional study on the processing of gender and number agreement Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:2, pp. 213–232 | Article

This cross-sectional study examines the role of L1-L2 differences and structural distance in the processing of gender and number agreement by English-speaking learners of Spanish at three different levels of proficiency. Preliminary results show that differences between the L1 and L2 impact L2… read more

Fiorentino, Robert, Jamie Bost, Alyson D. Abel and Jordan Zuccarelli 2012 The recruitment of knowledge regarding plurality and compound formation during language comprehension The Mental Lexicon 7:1, pp. 34–57 | Article

Compound formation has been a major focus of research and debate in mental lexicon research. In particular, it has been widely observed that compounds with a regular plural non-head are dispreferred, and a long line of research has examined the nature of this constraint, including which… read more

Aldwayan, Saad, Robert Fiorentino and Alison Gabriele 2010 Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement: A study of Najdi Arabic learners of English Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill and Jill Jegerski (eds.), pp. 65–86 | Article

Recent proposals have suggested that second language learners, unlike native speakers, are ‘shallow processors’ in that they do not make use of abstract syntactic knowledge in parsing, relying instead on lexical semantic knowledge and pragmatic notions such as plausibility (Clahsen & Felser,… read more

Fiorentino, Robert and Ella Fund-Reznicek 2009 Masked morphological priming of compound constituents The Mental Lexicon 4:2, pp. 159–193 | Article

Recent masked priming studies suggest that complex words are rapidly segmented into potential morphological constituents during initial visual word recognition. Much of this evidence involves affixation or other formally regular operations, leaving open the question of whether these effects rely… read more