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My recent research continues to investigate how orthography influences the phonology of additional languages. I have also developed a new strand of research on sacred language learning, alongside continuing experimental work on language learning and bilingualism.
Orthography and additional language phonology
Bassetti, B. (2023) Effects of orthography on second language phonology: Learning, awareness, perception and production. Routledge.
doi: 10.4324/9780429343117
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Bassetti, B. (2024). Orthographic effects in the phonetics and phonology of second language learners and users. In M. Amengual (Ed.) The Cambridge handbook of bilingual phonetics and phonology (pp. 699-720). Cambridge University Press.
doi: 10.1017/9781009105767.032
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Sacred language learning
Bassetti, B. (2024) The learning of sacred languages. In S. Pihlaja and H. Ringrow (Eds.) The Routledge handbook of language and religion (pp. 13-24). Routledge.
doi: 10.4324/9781003301271-3
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Bassetti, B. & Reinboldt, R. (2023, online first). Learning Sanskrit as a sacred language in the West: A narrative study. International Journal of Bilingualism.
doi: 10.1177/13670069231198232
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Language learning and processing
Li, W., Bassetti, B. & Frisson, S. (2026) Changes in word order do not eliminate the collocation advantage: An eye-tracking study of L1 and L2 speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 29(1), 92-106
doi: 10.1017/S1366728925000057
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