Research and academic activities
Research and academic activities
Paper presentations at peer-reviewed conferences
S. Blohm, Giordano A. (2026, forthcoming) Prosodic sensitivity to a weak additional syllable in Italian anapaestic verse. Evidence from Lavorare stanca, Langues & Langage à la croisée des Disciplines (LLcD), Aix-Marseille Université, (ENG).
Giordano A. (2026) Exploring the effect of an additional syllable in the anapestic meter of Lavorare stanca by Cesare Pavese, Poetics and Linguistics Association 2026 (PALA 2026), University of Uppsala, (ENG).
Giordano A. (2026) Weak elements and metrical mismatch: testing extrametricality in Lavorare stanca’s anapestic meter, Plotting Poetry, University of Caen, (ENG).
Giordano A. Versace S. (2026) On a Ternary Meter in Italian Poetry. A Bracketed Grid Account of Lavorare stanca by Cesare Pavese, Frontiers in Comparative Metrics V. In memory of Reuven Tsur and Barry Scherr, University of Tartu, (ENG).
Giordano A. (2026) The phonological structure of Italian anapaestic meter: weak elements and dependency relations in ternary feet, Manchester Forum in Linguistics, Manchester, (ENG).
Giordano A. (2025) Riconoscere, costruire, giocare. Insegnare la metrica nella scuola secondaria di primo grado [Recognise, Build, Play. Teaching Metrics in Secondary School], International Conference Teaching Literature as a Field of Research, University of Siena, (ITA).
Giordano A. (2025) Metro, emozioni estetiche e piedi ternari. Un’indagine sull’anapesto [Meter, Aesthetic Emotions and Metrical Ternary Feet. An Experiment on the Anapest], Poesiæuropa – VII Edition, Spazio Humanitas, University of Perugia, (ITA).
Giordano A. (2024) Forma aperta e (è) forma chiusa [Open Form and (Is) Closed Form], MOD Annual Conference Modern and Anti-modern. The Adventures of a Contradiction, University of Milan, (ITA).
Poster
S. Blohm, Giordano A. (2026, forthcoming) Exploring the effect of a weak additional syllable. Perceptual sensitivity to metrical variation in Italian anapaestic meter, Linguistic Evidence 2026, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim (ENG).
Giordano A. (2026) Italian anapestic meter and linguistic structure: a generative approach, T.W.I.S.T. Conference 2026, Leiden University, (ENG).
Invited talks
Giordano A. (2026) Extrametricality and Internally Layered Feet in Lavorare stanca anapestic meter, Séminaire de Métrique Générale, Sorbonne Université, (ENG)
Giordano A. (2026) The meter-phonology interface. Weak elements, dependency relations, and Internally Layered Feet in Italian anapaestic meter, Phonology Seminar, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, (ENG).
Giordano A. (2024) Presentation of Master’s thesis during the session Fabb & Halle vs Vaux & Myler: Grouping in the Stressing of Words, in Metrical Verse, and in Music, Séminaire de Métrique Générale, Sorbonne Université, (FR).
Giordano A. Versace S. (2024) Riflessioni teorico-pratiche sul verso necessario di Giuliano Mesa [Theoretical and Practical Reflections on the Necessary Meter by Giuliano Mesa], Conference Incroci, University of Bologna, (ITA).
Other presentations
Giordano A. (2026) Nasals and the stop element in Element Theory: evidence from Icelandic alliterative verse, presentation in the course Advanced Phonology, Leiden University, (ENG).
Carbognin F., Cecchinel L., Ciaco M., D’Angelo D., Farris A., Giordano A., Liberale L., Lorenzini N., Medaglini G., Pala G., Palma M., Valduga P. (2023) Il medesimo e l’altro/l’altra/gli altri nella poesia tra XX e XXI secolo: tradizioni, linguaggi, identità [The Same and the Other(s) in Poetry from the 20th to the 21st Century: Traditions, Languages, Identities], Seminar of Contemporary Poetry Officina di poesia, University of Bologna, (ITA).
Panel Organization
Chiale L., Giordano A. (2025) «Is there a Theory in this Class?». Indagare il testo letterario attraverso la teoria [«Is there a Theory in this Class?». Investigate Literary Text through Theory], Annual Conference Canadian Association for Italian Studies CAIS, University of Bologna, (ITA).
Giordano A., Versace S. (2025) «Non c’è due senza tre»: Indagini sul ruolo marginale del piede ternario nella letteratura italiana [«Non c’è due senza tre»: Investigations into the Marginal Role of the Ternary Foot in Italian Literature], Annual Conference Associazione degli Italianisti AdI, University of Genova, (ITA).
Experimental Research Activities
Three-month research stay at Philipps-Universität Marburg, conducting an experimental study on the aesthetic perception of poetic meter within the Weak Elements in Phonology research group, in collaboration with S. Blohm and M. Scharinger.
Recording of experimental stimuli at the Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics Arturo Genre, University of Turin (2025).
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