Francesca M. Dovetto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesca M. Dovetto is involved.
Articles
2018 An American at the origins of European Sprachwissenschaft and Italian historiographical thought: William Dwight Whitney and his approach to linguistic issues Historiographia Linguistica 45:3, pp. 289–324 | Article
This contribution is dedicated to William Dwight Whitney (1827–1897), a scholar who generally has a modest space dedicated to him in the historiography of linguistics, despite his name and works having had considerable circulation among his contemporaries. His originality and method are outlined… read more
1996 From Maine de Biran to the ‘Motor Theory’ of speech: A note in the history of phonetics Historiographia Linguistica 23:3, pp. 347–364 | Article
The basic idea of the modern Motor Theory of Speech Perception (Liberman et al. 1963) is that “the perception of speech is tightly linked to the feedback from the speaker’s own articulatory movements”. In this paper we try to show how the same idea was already formulated by the French philosopher… read more