Federico Albano Leoni
List of John Benjamins publications for which Federico Albano Leoni plays a role.
Articles
1996 From Maine de Biran to the ‘Motor Theory’ of speech: A note in the history of phonetics Historiographia Linguistica 23:3, pp. 347–364 | Article
The basic idea of the modern Motor Theory of Speech Perception (Liberman et al. 1963) is that “the perception of speech is tightly linked to the feedback from the speaker’s own articulatory movements”. In this paper we try to show how the same idea was already formulated by the French philosopher… read more
1992 The beginnings of phonology in Italy Historiographia Linguistica 19:2/3, pp. 301–316 | Article
It is known that structural phonology (and, more generally, structural linguistics) began in Italy later than in other European countries. In the general opinion, this was due to the hegemony of Benedetto Croces’s philosophy during the years between World War I and his death in 1952. This paper… read more