Assistant professor of French linguistics at @LUCL_Leiden. he/il
Joined December 2019
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20 Nov 2025
I am looking for this paper, but can't find it online and no library in the Netherlands seems to have a physical copy. Does anybody here have a copy by any chance?
Tranel, B (1998). Suppletion and OT: On the issue of the syntax/phonology interaction. Proceedings of the 16th WCCFL
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9 Oct 2025
Mes collègues @bstorme2 , @hebert_plante et moi cherchons des participants et participants pour une étude sur la phonologie du créole martiniquais. Plus d'informations dans le prospectus ci-dessous. Faites circuler.
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25 Sep 2025
Dans cet article de "The Conversation", on explique comment l'écriture inclusive permet non seulement de mieux représenter les femmes, mais également de lutter contre les stéréotypes de genre - ce qui peut bénéficier aussi bien aux femmes qu'aux hommes. theconversation.com/lecritur…
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22 Sep 2025
The 4th UB Creolist Workshop will be held on Friday, September 26, between 8:45 am and 5:00 pm. You may join either in person or online via Zoom (info in the flyer). Looking forward to seeing you all!
#CreoleStudies #linguistics #LanguageContact
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21 Jul 2025
How to make a text gender-fair? In this new paper, we show that gender neutralizing is not the ideal strategy, as it can actually reinforce stereotypes.
doi.org/10.1177/0261927X2513…
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21 Jul 2025
The most effective approach is to make gender visible—for example, by using forms that include both masculine and feminine versions.
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8 Apr 2025
On May 23, we’re celebrating our 130-year anniversary and the exciting news that the French department at Leiden University is here to stay! I will give a short talk about applications of linguistics, from forensic linguistics to AI. @UniLeidenNews
universiteitleiden.nl/agenda…
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11 Mar 2025
We have an opening for a PhD position in French ling in Leiden. The PhD student will investigate the phonology/phonetics of one or more French-based creoles contribute to teaching language/linguistics in the French program. Deadline: 31-3-2025. More info universiteitleiden.nl/vacatu…
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Benjamin Storme retweeted
28 Jan 2025
Mr. President: Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, I have a better idea.
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.
Let's steal those ideas.
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9 Jan 2025
📢The programme of the OCP workshop on vowel harmony is out! Invited speakers: Harry van der Hulst and Alexander Martin. Takes place in Leiden (Leiden Bio Science park) on February 4th (registration: fon.hum.uva.nl/ocp22/registr…). Workshop webpage: universiteitleiden.nl/en/eve…
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5 Jan 2025
En 1945, mon arrière-grand-père mourait prisonnier de guerre en Allemagne. Ma famille ne savait pas grand chose sur les circonstances de sa mort. Ce petit livre raconte comment, entre 2019 et 2023, j'ai pu élucider le mystère... doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14602…
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5 Jan 2025
... essentiellement grâce à une photo, prise à Königsberg, et à un travail de recherche à partir d'archives en France, en Allemagne, aux Etats-Unis et sur internet. Si vous aimez les enquêtes historiques, ça peut vous intéresser !
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28 Nov 2024
The deadline for this workshop on vowel harmony is coming soon! December 1st
21 Oct 2024
The Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) is taking place at the U. of Amsterdam in 2025. And Leiden is hosting a satellite workshop on vowel harmony right before the conference, on February 4th, 2025. Submit an abstract until Dec 1st! linguistlist.org/issues/35-2… @LUCL_Leiden
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29 Oct 2024
L'enseignement universitaire de nombreuses disciplines, dont le français et d'autres langues, est menacé aux Pays-Bas. Une pétition pour empêcher ça : chng.it/FNFm2Q5qTg @Laelia_Ve, @Linguisticae, @APonsonnet, @MedericGC, @MathieuAvanzi
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29 Oct 2024
Stop cuts on Dutch higher education! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/z4Lvrb5ssK via @Change
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21 Oct 2024
The Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) is taking place at the U. of Amsterdam in 2025. And Leiden is hosting a satellite workshop on vowel harmony right before the conference, on February 4th, 2025. Submit an abstract until Dec 1st! linguistlist.org/issues/35-2… @LUCL_Leiden
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12 Sep 2024
I have a new paper out in the journal Morphology: "French liaison is allomorphy, not allophony: evidence from lexical statistics". It's the last piece of my trilogy on French liaison. doi.org/10.1007/s11525-024-0…
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All in all, I think these three papers together provide a coherent analysis of French liaison, a pattern that has puzzled linguists for decades. These puzzling properties arise from interactions between the structure of the lexicon (presence of allomorphy) and...
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principles that regulate morphological and phonological grammars across languages (phonotactic optimization, morphological optimization).
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