Alessandro Laudanna
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alessandro Laudanna is involved.
Articles
2025 Morphological processing in written word recognition: New evidence on visual priming with stem-homographs and stem-allomorphs in Italian The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
Morphological effects are consistently reported in written word recognition but their theoretical explanation is still debated. The paper aims to disentangle the specific role of morphological information from orthography during written word recognition. We exploit the “morphemic ambiguity” of… read more
2017 The influence of grammatical gender and suffix transparency in processing Italian written nouns The Mental Lexicon 12:1, pp. 107–128 | Article
In some languages the grammatical gender of nouns can be probabilistically detected using formal cues; for instance, in Italian, the majority of feminine nouns end in ‘-a’(e.g., casa, ‘home’) and the majority of masculine nouns end in ‘-o’ (e.g., albero, ‘tree’). It has been hypothesized that… read more