Publications

Alemán-Bañón, Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2023). The neurolinguistics of the L2 syntactic system. (2023). In Morgan-Short, K. and van Hell, J.G., eds., The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics, pp.133-148.

Gong, S., Zhang, G., and Fiorentino, R. (2023). Phonological well-formedness constraints in Mandarin phonotactics: Evidence From lexical decision. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830923118236.

Tang, W., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2023). Examining transfer in the acquisition of the count/mass distinction in L2 English. Second Language Research, 39(1), 231-257. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02676583211023729. Link to online article)

Covey, L., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2022). Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02676583221116039.

Zeng, Y., Fiorentino, R., & Zhang, J. (2022). Experimental investigation of the Mandarin lexical tone production process. Proceedings of 13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. 177-180.

Zeng, Y., Fiorentino, R., and Zhang, J. (2021). Electrophysiological signatures of perceiving alternated tone in Mandarin Chinese: Mismatch negativity to underlying tone conflict. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:735593 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.735593. (Open access article)

Gabriele, A., Alemán-Bañón, J., Hoffman, L., Covey, L., Rossomondo, A., and Fiorentino, R. (2021, Online). Examining variability in the processing of agreement in novice learners: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000983. Link to online article)

Pham, C., Covey, L., Gabriele, A., Aldosari, S., and Fiorentino, R. (2020). Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), 94. doi: 10.5334/gjgl.1199. (Open access article)

Feroce, N., Fiorentino, R., Covey, L., and Gabriele, A. (2020). Neural evidence for the processing of referential ambiguity and referential failure in Spanish. In D. Pascual y Cabo & I. Elola (Eds.), Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 153-174. John Benjamins.

Chien, Y.-F., Yang, X., Fiorentino, R., and Sereno, J. A. (2020). The role of surface and underlying forms when processing tonal alternations in Mandarin Chinese: A mismatch negativity study. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:646 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00646. (Open access article)

Coughlin, C., Fiorentino, R., Royle, P., and Steinhauer, K. (2019). Sensitivity to inflectional morphology in a non-native language: Evidence from ERPs. Frontiers in Communication, 4:21 doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2019.00021. (Open access article)

Fiorentino, R. (2019). Issues in Neurolinguistic Studies of Morphology. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.599. (Online at Oxford Research Encyclopedias)

Yang, X., Minai, U., and Fiorentino, R. (2018). Context-sensitivity and individual differences in the derivation of scalar implicature. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1720, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01720. (Open access article)

Alemán-Bañón, J., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2018). Using event-related potentials to track morphosyntactic development in second language learners: The processing of number and gender agreement in Spanish. PLOS ONE, 13(7): e0200791. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200791. (Open access article)

Fiorentino, R., Covey, L., and Gabriele, A. (2018). Individual differences in the processing of referential dependencies: evidence from event-related potentials. Neuroscience Letters, 673, 79-84.

Covey, L., Gabriele, A., and Fiorentino, R. (2018). Can learners use morphosyntactic cues to facilitate processing? Evidence from gender agreement in Hindi. Language Acquisition. (DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2017.1359272)

Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R., and Covey, L. (2017). Understanding the symptoms and sources of variability in second language sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 685-686.

Minai, U., Gustafson, K., Fiorentino, R., Jongman, A., and Sereno, J. (2017). Fetal rhythm-based language discrimination: A biomagnetometry study. NeuroReport, 28, 561-564.

Johnson, A. Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2016). Syntactic constraints and individual differences in native and non-native processing of wh-movement.Frontiers in Psychology, 7:549,doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00549. (Open access article)

Fiorentino, R., Naito-Billen, Y., and Minai, U. (2016). Morphological Decomposition in Japanese De-adjectival Nominals: Masked and Overt Priming Evidence. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45, 575-597.

Fiorentino, R., Politzer-Ahles, S., Pak, N.S., Martinez-Garcia, M., and Coughlin, C. (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), 413-434. (PMC full-text article)

Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R.D., and Johnson, A. (2015). Attentional control and prediction in native and non-native speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 4(5), 470-475.

Alemán-Bañón, J., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2014). Morphosyntactic processing in advanced second language learners: An event related potential investigation of the effects of L1-L2 similarity and structural distance. Second Language Research, 30(3), 275-306.

Fiorentino, R., Naito-Billen, Y., Bost, J., and Fund-Reznicek, E. (2014). Electrophysiological evidence for the morpheme-based combinatoric processing of English compounds. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 31, 123-146. (PMC full-text article)

Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R. and Aleman Bañón, J., (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), 213-232.

Politzer-Ahles, S., & Fiorentino, R. (2013). The realization of scalar inferences: context sensitivity without processing cost. PLOS ONE, 8(5): e63943. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063943. (Open access article)

Hunt III, L., Politzer-Ahles, S., Gibson, L., Minai, U., and Fiorentino, R. (2013). Pragmatic inferences modulate N400 during sentence comprehension: evidence from picture-sentence verification. Neuroscience Letters, 534, 246-251. (PMC full-text article)

Politzer-Ahles, S., Fiorentino, R., Jiang, X., and Zhou, X. (2013). Distinct neural correlates for pragmatic and semantic meaning processing: An event-related potential investigation of scalar implicature processing using picture-sentence verification. Brain Research, 1490, 134-152. (PMC full-text article)

Fiorentino, R., Bost, J., Abel, A.D., and Zuccarelli, J. (2012). The recruitment of knowledge regarding plurality and compound formation during language comprehension. The Mental Lexicon, 7, 34-57. (PMC full-text article)

Aleman Bañón, J., Fiorentino, R., and Gabriele, A. (2012). The Processing of Number and Gender Agreement in Spanish: An Event Related Potential Investigation of the Effects of Structural Distance. Brain Research, 1456, 49-63.

Bond, K., Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R. and Aleman Bañón, J. (2011). Individual Differences and the Role of the L1 in L2 Processing: An ERP Investigation. Proceedings of the 11th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA). J. Herschensohn & Darren Tanner (Eds.), p. 17-29. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (Open access via Cascadilla Proceedings Project)

Aldwayan, S., Fiorentino, R. and Gabriele, A. (2010). Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement: A study of Najdi Arabic learners of English. Research on Second Language Processing and Parsing, B. VanPatten & Jill Jergerski (Eds.), p. 65-86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Minai, U. and Fiorentino, R. (2010). The Role of the Focus Operator Only in Children's Computation of Sentence Meaning. Language Acquisition, 17, 183-190.

Fiorentino, R. and Fund-Reznicek, E. (2009). Masked morphological priming of compound constituents. The Mental Lexicon, 4(2), 159-193.

Monahan, P., Fiorentino, R., and Poeppel, D. (2008). Masked repetition priming using magnetoencephalography. Brain and Language, 106, 65-71. (PMC full-text article)

Fiorentino, R. and Fund-Reznicek, E. (2008). “Effects of constituency on the processing of lexicalized and novel compound words”. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 201). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Fiorentino, R. and Poeppel, D. (2007a). Compound words and structure in the lexicon. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12, 953-1000.

Fiorentino, R. and Poeppel, D. (2007b). Processing of compound words: An MEG study. Brain and Language, 103, 18-19.

Fiorentino, R. (2006). Unexpected pair-list readings in plural indefinites: a new generalization. In Rebecca T. Cover and Yuni Kim, (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 121-132. Ann Arbor, MI: Sheridan Books.

Fiorentino, R. (2006). Plural indefinites and unexpected pair-list readings. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 12, 69-82.

Beretta, A., Fiorentino, R., and Poeppel, D. (2005). The effects of homonymy and polysemy on lexical access: an MEG study. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 57-65.

Fiorentino, R. and Poeppel, D. (2004). Decomposition of compound words: an MEG measure of early access to constituents. In Richard Alterman and David Kirsch (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1342. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.