Serena Dal Maso
List of John Benjamins publications in which Serena Dal Maso is involved.
Articles
2025 Morphological salience effects of prefixes and suffixes embedded in French words The Mental Lexicon: Online-First Articles | Article
According to the affix-chunking hypothesis, a letter search should be more difficult for a letter embedded in an affix compared with a non-affixed letter sequence because affixes have a functional significance. On the other hand, the decomposition hypothesis claims that derived (e.g., hunter)… read more
2022 Chapter 2. For a topology of derivational paradigms Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications, Ruz, Alba E., Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares (eds.), pp. 21–56 | Chapter
In recent times, paradigmatic approaches to word formation have become increasingly popular, but the very concept of derivational paradigm is still far from being clear and universally accepted: while paradigms are a useful construct for the treatment of inflectional phenomena, less… read more
2014 Morphological processing in L2 Italian: Evidence from a masked priming study Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon, Amiot, Dany, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati (eds.), pp. 322–337 | Article
The present paper explores the processing of morphologically complex words in L2 Italian by means of as series of masked priming experiments associated with a LDT. We manipulated deadjectival nominalizations in -ità (e.g. velocità < veloce) and in -ezza (e.g. bellezza < bello), that differ in terms… read more