Research

2025

• Shao, B., Hermes, A., Buech, P., Giavazzi, M.* (2025). Articulatory spill-over effects of lexical stress in Italian and their phonological implications. Journal of Phonetics, Volume 108, 101371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101371 

2024

• Carranante, G., Cany, C., Farri, P., Giavazzi, M. & Varnet, L. (2024). Mapping the spectrotemporal regions influencing perception of French stop consonants in noise. Scientific Reports, 14, 27183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77634-w (pdf)

• Le Stanc, L., Lunven, M., Giavazzi, M., Sliwinski, A., Youssov, K, Bachoud-Lévi, A., & Jacquemot, C. (2024) Cognitive reserve involves decision making and is associated with left parietal and hippocampal hypertrophy in neurodegeneration. Communications Biology, 7(1), 741. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06416-x (pdf)

2023

• Carranante G., Giavazzi M., Varnet L. (2023) Auditory reverse correlation applied to the study of place and voicing: four new phoneme-discrimination tasks. Forum Acusticum 2023 : 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Sep 2023, Turin, Italy. pp.4705-4712, (10.61782/fa.2023.0268) (pdf)

• Shao, B., Buech, P., Hermes, A., Giavazzi M.* (2023). Lexical stress and velar palatalization in Italian: A spatio-temporal interaction. Interspeech2023. Dublin, Ireland, 1833-1837. [*corr. author] (pdf)

• Shao, B., Buech, P., Hermes, A., Giavazzi M.* (2023). Stress conditioned phonological process: a case study of Italian palatalization. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XX), Prague, Czech Republic, 2189-2193. [*corr. author] (pdf).

• Le Stanc L., Youssov K., Giavazzi M., Sliwinski A.,  Bachoud-Lévi A.-C., Jacquemot C. (2023) Language disorders in patients with striatal lesions: deciphering the role of the striatum in language performance, Cortex 166 , 91 - 106 (doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.04.016) (pdf).

2020

• Lorin*, L., Maselli*, L., Varnet, L., Giavazzi M. Acoustic Properties of Strident Fricatives at the Edges: Implications for Consonant Discrimination. Proc. Interspeech 2020, 636-640, (DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2913). [*co-first authors] (pdf).

2018

• Giavazzi, M., Daland, R., Palminteri, S., Peperkamp, S., Brugières, P., Jacquemot, C., Schramm, C., Cleret de Langavant, L. & Bachoud-Levi, A.-C. The role of the striatum in linguistic selection: Evidence from Huntington’s disease and computational modeling. Cortex, 109, December 2018, pp. 189-204 (doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.031) (pdf).

• Giavazzi M., Sambin S., de Diego-Balaguer R., Le Stanc L., Bachoud-Lévi A.-C., Jacquemot C. Structural Priming in Sentence Comprehension: a single prime is enough, PlosONE, 13(4) (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194959) (pdf).

• Nanetti L, Contarino VE, Castaldo A, Sarro L, Bachoud-Levi AC, Giavazzi M., Frittoli S, Ciammola A, Rizzo E, Gellera C, Bruzzone MG, Taroni F, Grisoli M, Mariotti C. Cortical thickness, stance control, and arithmetic skill: An exploratory study in premanifest Huntington disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 51(17-23)( doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2018.02.033) Epub 2018 Feb 23 (pdf).

2015

• Sun, Y., Giavazzi, M., Barbosa, L., Kouider, S., Adda-Decker, M., Jacquemot, C. & Peperkamp, S (2015); ‘Complex phonological rules modulate early auditory brain responses.’ Brain and Laguage 149 pp. 55-65. (pdf)

2012

• Sambin, S., Teichmann, M., De Diego Balaguer, R., Giavazzi, M., Sportiche, D., Schlenker, P., Bachoud-Lévi, A.C. (2012); The role of the striatum in sentence processing: Disentangling syntax from working memory in Huntington’s disease’ Neuropsychologia, 50 (11): 2625-2635. (pdf)

2011

• Giavazzi, M. (2011) ‘Getting rid of Positional Faithfulness in stressed positions: the phonetic underpinnings of prosodic conditioning’ In NELS 41: Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, Amherst, MA: GLSA. (pdf)

2009

• Cho, H. &  Giavazzi, M. (2009) ‘Perception of voicing in fricatives’. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Linguistics (CIL 18). (pdf)

2008

• Giavazzi, M. (2008). ‘On the application of velar palatalization in Italian’. In Proceedings of WCCFL 27. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics. (pdf)

Manuscripts:

• Giavazzi M. & Cho H. ‘On the perception of voicing in strident fricatives’ (ms) (pdf)

Book reviews

• Giavazzi, M. Review of Martin Krämer ‘The phonology of Italian.’ (2010) Oxford University Press, Phonology 27(2): 332-341. (pdf)

Dissertation

• Giavazzi, M. (2010). The phonetics of metrical prominence and its consequences on segmental phonology. Ph.D. dissertation; MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. (pdf)