I am an Assistant Professor of French linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, specializing in phonology and its interfaces (morphology, phonetics). I received a PhD in Linguistics from MIT (my academic tree).
One important goal in linguistic research is to understand why some patterns are very common across and within languages whereas others rarely or never occur. My research aims to uncover the deeper principles underlying these statistical tendencies, using a combination of quantitative data, linguistic theory, and statistical modeling techniques. My main focus is on sound patterns.
I also work on gender-fair language. I use experiments to study whether and how language cues like gender marking and agreement affect how people infer a person's gender in a sentence.
Benjamin Storme on ResearchGate
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2560-2265
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