Francesca Postiglione

List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesca Postiglione is involved.

Article

De Martino, Maria, Giulia Bracco, Francesca Postiglione and Alessandro Laudanna 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