Lori Repetti

Lori Repetti is a Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA (1989). Her research focuses on phonology, microvariation in Romance languages, and linguistic typology, with a particular emphasis on Italian dialects. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). She co-created the Clitics of Romance Languages (CRL) database, a resource for studying clitic pronouns in endangered Romance varieties. Repetti also contributes to linguistics pedagogy, developing innovative courses like the asynchronous general-education course Language in the United States.

• Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, UCLA, 1989
• Funding: NEH and NSF grants supporting fieldwork and typological research
• Key Projects: CRL database, reduplication typology study, loanword phonology research

Her research interests include the interaction between phonology and syntax, the documentation of endangered languages, and the teaching of linguistics through Latin. She has published extensively on clitic positioning, syllabification processes, and microvariation in Romance dialects. Repetti collaborates internationally, presenting at conferences such as the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) and contributing to edited volumes on Romance linguistics.