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Benjamin Storme

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Linguist at Leiden University

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Barbara Hemforth @bhemforth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Envie d'aider la recherche? Nous cherchons des participants pour une expérience sur la compréhension des phrases dans des conditions de vision réduite. Conditions: Etre locutrice ou locuteur natif du français, avoir plus de 18 ans. Cliquez sur le lien... ibex.llf-paris.fr/ibexexps/Jia...
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Experiment
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I have been informally testing chatbots on what one could call the "Joey Starr test", i.e the ability to "verlanize" French words ("cité"-"téci"). ChatGPT still fails on some hard cases. But Mistral unfortunately does much worse. Look how it confidently says that "ckan" is informal for "Franck"
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Cédric Patin @cedricpatin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
RALFe 2026 will be held at Paris 8 on 4–5 June with a workshop on allomorphy at Paris Cité on 3 June. The invited speakers are Colin Phillips, Anamaria Fălăuş, Richard Kayne, Marijke de Belder, and Markéta Ziková. Deadline for submission is 10 February. sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026
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RALFe 2026
Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
thanks a lot!
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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, Bernard (1998). Suppletion and OT: On the issue of the syntax/phonology interaction. The Proceedings of the 16th WCCFL.
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Elles comme linguistes @elleslinguistes.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Je recherche des stagiaires (F/H/X) pour travailler à la constitution d’un grand corpus vocal multilingue. #phonétique #phonetics #corpus #langues #linguistique #TAL #linguistics #languages #automaticalignment #stage L'offre est accessible dans son intégralité ici: www.linkedin.com/hiring/jobs/...
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Le Nouvel Obs @nouvelobs.com · 02/10/2025
Tribune | Comment l’écriture inclusive peut être une arme contre les stéréotypes de genre par @bstorme.bsky.social et Martin Storme www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202510...
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Comment l’écriture inclusive peut être une arme contre les stéréotypes de genre
L’écriture inclusive vise une égalité des représentations entre femmes et hommes. Mais face à la diversité des options proposées, quelle stratégie adopter ? Une étude récente montre que les formulatio...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Ma publication dans "the Conversation" sur l'écriture inclusive (theconversation.com/lecriture-in...) m'a valu ma première qualification de "wokiste" ("immonde wokiste"). L'ironie, c'est que le mot "wokiste" est lui-même une forme d'écriture inclusive (forme neutre). "Wokard" serait plus adapté.
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Dans cet article de "The Conversation", on explique comment certaines formes d'écriture inclusive permettent 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.
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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Kom naar de Avond van de Talen bij @leidenhumanities.bsky.social op vrijdag 26 september tussen 18.30 en 22.00. Kom een taal leren!
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Pourquoi le féminin générique ? Parce que son interprétation est plus neutre (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...)
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Effects of grammatical gender on gender inferences: Evidence from French hybrid nouns
A growing body of research shows that readers and listeners are biased by the grammatical gender of a noun when making inferences about the gender of its referent. This result is central in debates ab...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Faut-il changer la devise du Panthéon "Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante" ? Sharon Peperkamp, chercheuse au CNRS, propose de remplacer le masculin par un féminin générique et "patrie" par "nation". Ça donne "Aux grandes âmes la nation reconnaissante". www.ouest-france.fr/societe/egal...
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Et les « grandes femmes » ? La devise du Panthéon divise
« Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante » : la ministre de l’Éducation nationale, Élisabeth Borne, propose d’ouvrir le débat vers un changement de devise du Panthéon, afin d’inclure les femmes il...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A more accessible summary, meant for a wider audience: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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What makes a text ‘gender fair’? ‘Concealing gender actually promotes stereotyping’
How do you write a job advertisement that appeals to both men and women? This question is particularly pressing in French, where every noun has a clearly visible grammatical gender. University researc...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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/10.1177/0261...
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Feminization is More Gender-Fair Than Neutralization: Evidence From Gender-Stereotyped Contexts - Benjamin Storme, Martin Storme, 2025
In many languages, masculine forms are used generically. However, extensive research demonstrates that these forms exhibit a male bias that can adversely affect...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I am wondering whether the effect is due to the binary vs continuous presentation of the data, or to the fact that lake freezing is a much more concrete consequence than temperature change (which is quite abstract). What if temperatures are presented in a binary way (nb of days below/above 0°C)?
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Tommy van Avermaete @tommyvav.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
For a podcast on higher education and academic freedom, I’d like to interview an American academic about her/his/their experiences. Please DM me if you can help. Sharing this message is much appreciated. Participating anonymously is definitely possible. @woinactie.bsky.social
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Jalapa Mazatec is reported to have phonemic creaky vowels: www.jstor.org/stable/30028...
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Phonetic Structures in Jalapa Mazatec on JSTOR
Daniel Silverman, Barbara Blankenship, Paul Kirk, Peter Ladefoged, Phonetic Structures in Jalapa Mazatec, Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 70-88
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Je pensais que c'était pour des raisons morphologiques (accord en genre et nombre) plutôt que syntaxiques qu'on catégorisait ces mots comme adjectifs traditionnellement. Etait-ce vraiment des adj en latin syntaxiquement ?
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Chez moi, habemus pas PAM
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
challenge accepted!
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
C'est la passivation qui permet de savoir, non ? On ne peut pas vraiment dire "ces dix kilomètres ont été courus par les coureurs", donc on conclut que "ces dix kilomètres" n'est pas COD dans la phrase active correspondante. J'imagine que c'est le test implicite sous-jacent à ces catégorisations.
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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 real-world applications of linguistics, from forensic linguistics to AI. www.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2025/...
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Célébrons le français: Symposium 130 jaar Franse Taal en Cultuur in Leiden
Kennis van de Franse taal en Franstalige culturen van over de hele wereld is van enorme waarde voor Nederland. Het Frans wordt wereldwijd door meer dan 320 miljoen mensen gesproken, inclusief in lande...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
there is another example in Martinican creole, where coda [r] had a lowering effect on a preceding mid-vowel. Coda [r] was lost but the allophonic effect on preceding mid vowels persisted, giving rise to a new vowel contrast. We discuss this pattern p 3 here: www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shs...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
it reminds me of tonogenesis (consonant contrasts reinterpreted as tone contrasts)
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Interesting perspective on academia and Wikipedia: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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For more reliable AI, academics should edit Wikipedia
Letter to the Editor
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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 www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
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PhD candidate in French linguistics
Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics has a vacancy for a PhD candidate in French linguistics, starting September 2025 (1.0 fte) Project description/ Key responsibilities Cre...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
je trouve ça plutôt ingénieux, on peut comprendre le message (en anglais) tout en ayant la petite couleur grecque à travers les lettres
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Study Association TWIST @studieverenigingtwist.nl · 14/02/2025
Call for Abstracts is closing soon! The 19th T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference in #Linguistics is looking for student speakers. The deadline is in about a week (21 Feb). Have any interesting research to share? Submit an abstract! You can find more information at conference.studieverenigingtwist.nl
A banner for the 2025 T.W.I.S.T. student conference.

At the bottom left, "FRONTIERS" is written out in large stylised text, following the shape of a swoosh in the background with the subtitle "Expanding into the Unknown". The "O" of Frontiers is replaced with a compass.

At the top right, "19th T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference in Linguistics" is written, with a T.W.I.S.T. logo and Leiden University logo below it.
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Vous disjonctez !
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Updated programme available: www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/con...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Magnifique !
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
(1) too. If it were (2), it would apply to any grammatical framework, as all grammars construct an utterance.
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
her name is "Celeste", so she is biased towards "Blue sky"?
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
📢 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/regist...). Workshop webpage: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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OCP Workshop on Vowel Harmony
This one-day workshop is part of the Old world Conference on Phonology organized by the University of Amsterdam. It is possible for an author to submit an abstract to both the main conference and the ...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I would add Irene Heim
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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/zeno...
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Les lapins de Königsberg : sur les traces de Paul Lannoo, mort pour la France en 1945
De Paul Lannoo, mon arrière-grand-père, on ne sait toujours pas grand chose. On n'en saura sans doute jamais beaucoup sur la vie de cet homme, né en septembre 1908 dans le Nord et mort à seulement 36 ...
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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Could it be that those sounds result from consonant cluster reduction historically?
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
best linguistics song since "We are the linguists"!
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
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/35-29...
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LINGUIST List 35.2922 Calls: OCP Workshop on Vowel Harmony
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Computational Linguistics job (Assistant Prof level, permanent) at our lovely linguistics department in Queen Mary. We're starting a new MSc in Lings and AI. Deadline Jan 5th, interviews late February. linguistlist.org/issues/35-33... #linguistics please repost!
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LINGUIST List 35.3363 Jobs: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
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/35-29...
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LINGUIST List 35.2922 Calls: OCP Workshop on Vowel Harmony
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Amazing!
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Good to see you here, Jonah!
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
In a paper to appear in LI Squibs, I propose a method to quantitatively assess the role of contrast in linguistic patterns showing variation. I use the method to model a probabilistic pattern of homophony avoidance in Persian. Paper available on lingbuzz: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007...
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
The way we use words says quite a lot about who we are. Look at the frequency of use of function words such as 'and', 'of' by French play writers Molière and Corneille: each author has it own particular way of using these words - a kind of lexical footprint. Data from www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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