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Researcher

Lorenzo Maselli

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25 Results

2026

Instrumental-phonetic fieldwork in the Ubangi River Basin : preliminary evidence from Central Sudanic Bagiro and broader implications

Lorenzo Maselli

Nasal retroflexes in North Boma (Bantu B82, Mai-Ndombe, DRC)

Lorenzo MaselliVéronique DelvauxJean-Pierre Donzo Bunza YugiaSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

U Journal Article in Phonological Data and Analysis

2025

Phonetic documentation in Central African Republic : the acoustics and articulation of Ubangi labial-velars and implosives

Lorenzo Maselli

Phonetic documentation in Central African Republic : the acoustics and articulation of Ubangi labial-velars and implosives

Lorenzo Maselli

Revisiting the African mtDNA landscape : a continental update from complete mitochondrial genomes

Imke LankheetAfifa ChowdhuryChristian Tellgren-RothCécile JollyAndré E. R. SoaresMiguel de NavascuésSara PacchiarottiLorenzo MaselliGuy KouarataJean-Pierre Donzo et al.

The Early Bantu expansion into Central Africa : new data and insights from population genetics

Cesar A. Fortes-LimaSara PacchiarottiLorenzo MaselliJean-Pierre Donzo Bunza YugiaGuy KouarataJoseph Koni MuluwaLéon MundekeKoen BostoenCarina Schlebusch

Bookchapter in An archaeology of the Bantu expansion : early settlers south of the Congo rainforest

2024

Aerodynamics of Sakata labial-velar oral stops

Lorenzo MaselliVéronique Delvaux

Documenting the sounds of the West-Coastal Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region (DR Congo) : an integrated phonetic and diachronic-phonological approach

Lorenzo MaselliKoen BostoenSara PacchiarottiVéronique Delvaux

Phonetic and phonological research in Mai-Ndombe : a few preliminary notes on rhotics and double-articulations

Lorenzo Maselli

A2 Journal Article in LANGUAGES

The labial-velars of Sakata (phonology, phonetics, historical implications)

Lorenzo Maselli

The labial-velars of Sakata : phonology, phonetics, historical implications

Lorenzo Maselli

2023

Labial-velar stops in Sakata (Bantu C34) : preliminary phonetic and phonological observations

Lorenzo MaselliVéronique DelvauxJean-Pierre Donzo Bunza YugiaSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in STUDIES IN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS

Nasal retroflexes in North Boma (Bantu B82, Mai-Ndombe, DRC)

Lorenzo Maselli

Retroflex nasals in the Mai-Ndombe (DRC) : the case of nasals in North Boma B82

Lorenzo Maselli

The Mai-Ndombe : languages, sounds, documentation, and fieldwork in Western Congo

Lorenzo Maselli

2022

Labial-velar consonants in Sakata (Bantu C34) : preliminary phonetic and phonological observations

Lorenzo Maselli

Post-nasal trilling in Bantu : cross-linguistic variation and typological overview

Daisuke ShinagawaSeunghun J. LeeLorenzo Maselli

Retroflex nasals in the Mai-Ndombe (DRC) : the case of nasals in North Boma B82 and Nunu B822

Lorenzo Maselli

Retroflex sounds in the Mai-Ndombe (DRC) : the case of nasals in North Boma B82 and Nunu B822

Lorenzo MaselliVéronique DelvauxJean-Pierre Donzo Bunza YugiaSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

Shared phonetic features in newly documented hunter-gatherer Bantu languages on the southern fringe of the Congo rainforest (DRC)

Lorenzo Maselli

2021

Labial-velar stops outside the Macro-Sudan Belt : new evidence from Lwel (West-Coastal Bantu, B862)

Lorenzo MaselliSara PacchiarottiKoen Bostoen

A1 Journal Article in AFRICANA LINGUISTICA

Phonetic and laboratory phonological research on hunter-gatherer substrate interference in the West-Coastal Bantu homeland region : some preliminary results

Lorenzo Maselli

Phonetic documentation in the underexplored linguistic landscape of the Mai-Ndombe Province of the Mai-Ndombe Province of the DRC

Lorenzo MaselliJean-Pierre Donzo Bunza YugiaKoen Bostoen

The emergence of interior vowels and heterosyllabic vowel sequences in Ngwi (Bantu B861, DRC)

Sara PacchiarottiLorenzo MaselliKoen Bostoen

A2 Journal Article in PAPERS IN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY

2020

Acoustic properties of strident fricatives at the edges : implications for consonant discrimination

Louis-Marie LorinLorenzo MaselliLéo VarnetMaria Giavazzi