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Línies d’investigació / Research interests

Publicacions recents / Recent publications

2026
Masullo, C., Giustolisi, B. (2026). Is the resolution of ambiguous pronouns influenced by code-switching and sociolinguistic context? Insights from Italian-English bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069261434430

2025
Leivada, E., Kelly-Iturriaga, L., Masullo, C., Westergaard, M., & Rothman, J. (2025) The unpredictable role of language distance in bilingual cognition: A systematic review from brain to behavior. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Published online 2025:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100746

Masullo, C., Casado, A., Leivada, E., & Sorace, A. (2025). Register variation and linguistic background modulate accuracy in detecting morphosyntactic errors. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 11(1), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.527

2024
Masullo, C., Casado, A., & Leivada, E. (2024). The role of minority language bilingualism in spotting agreement attraction errors: Evidence from Italian varieties. PLoSONE, 19(2), e0298648. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298648

Dentella, V., Masullo, C., & Leivada, E. (2024). Bilingual Disadvantages are Systematically Compensated by Bilingual Advantages Across Tasks and Populations. Scientific Reports, 14, 2107. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52417-5

2023
Masullo, C. (2023). Migration, language, and variation: the challenge of foreign speakers to detect Italian linguistic varieties. Quaderns d’Italià, 28, 75-102. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/qdi.567

Masullo, C., Dentella, V., & Leivada, E. (2023). 73% of the observed bilingual (dis)advantageous effects on cognition stem from social variables: A systematic review. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000664

Meluzzi, C., & Masullo, C. (2023). L’esperimento “scatole magiche” in due scuole elementari biellesi: stereotipi linguistici e varietà regionali di italiano. In M. Castagneto & M. Ravetto (Eds.), La comunicazione parlata – Spoken Communication. Vercelli 2021 (pp. 745-768). Aracne editrice.

2022
Leivada, E., Dentella, V., Masullo, C., & Rothman, J. (2022). On trade-offs in bilingualism and moving beyond the stacking the deck fallacy. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000761

Meluzzi, C., & Masullo, C. (2022). Using emojis to assess language attitudes And stereotypes in schoolchildren. Studii de lingvistică 12,2, 241 – 262. Conference proceedings

2021
Masullo, C., Castelli, C., Meloni, C., & Meluzzi, C. (2021). Dialetti su Instagram: Usi,differenze e atteggiamenti linguistici . In G. Bernini, F. Guerini, G. Iannaccaro (Eds.), La presenza dei dialetti italo-romanzi nel paesaggio linguistico – Ricerche e riflessioni (pp. 237-254). Bergamo University Press. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/198675

Masullo,C., & Meluzzi, C. (2020). Stereotipi, lingua e società: un’analisi dei pregiudizi legati ad accenti italiani e stranieri. In A. De Meo F. Dovetto (Eds.), La comunicazione parlata – Spoken Communication. Napoli 2018 (pp. 153-170). Aracne editrice.

PhD thesis
Masullo, C. (2024). A social theory of bilingual adaptations: How language experience and linguistic register variation modulate the processing of agreement attraction errors [Doctoral thesis]. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/691132