My current research examines the prosodic structures of northern Italian dialects and their interface with morphological and syntactic structures, and the realization of clitics in different morphological and syntactic contexts. Sample recent publications in this area include: Aronoff and Repetti (2022), Repetti (2020), Repetti (2016), Ordóñez and Repetti (2014), Kim and Repetti (2013), Cardinaletti and Repetti (2009), Cardinaletti and Repetti (2008), Cardinaletti and Repetti (2007), Ordóñez and Repetti (2006).
I also investigate the ways in which closely related languages differ, the constraints on that variation, and the historical processes that lead to the types of differences observed. My work primarily focuses on endangered Romance languages (“dialects”). Here are some recent publications on this topic: Repetti (2016), Liu and Repetti (2020_NACCL), Liu and Repetti (2020_WECOL), Ordóñez and Repetti (2014), Romanello and Repetti (2014).
Related to this is my interest in typology, or the range of variation attested in human languages and what that can tell us about universal grammar. A group of students and I are involved in a project looking at reduplicative structures (such as flip-flop or itsy-bitsy) cross-linguistically. We presented a preliminary report at the 2020 LSA conference in New Orleans, and you can find our poster here. The paper was published in Linguistic Typology in 2024.
A long-standing research interest of mine has been the adaptation of foreign words to the phonology and morphology of the borrowing language. You can find some of that work here: Repetti (2012), Repetti (2009), Repetti (2006).
I've also been involved in a few projects dealing with the teaching of Linguistics: Cépeda et al (2023), De Salvo, Larson and Repetti (2019).