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Posts by Benjamin Storme

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Is Gender‐Inclusive Language Left‐Wing? The Social Meaning of Four Gender‐Inclusive Strategies in French and German Despite evidence that gender-inclusive language represents genders more equally than generic masculines, it still faces resistance, possibly due to its perceived association with left-wing politics. ....

Les débats sur l’écriture inclusive invoquent la nécessité d’inclure tous types de personnes (argument pour) vs difficulté de déchiffrage (argument contre).

Mais en fait… les motivations sont souvent + politiques que linguistiques ⬇️

@bstorme.bsky.social

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RALFe 2026 Rencontres Autour de la Linguistique Formelle

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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thanks a lot!

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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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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:
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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...

Tribune | Comment l’écriture inclusive peut être une arme contre les stéréotypes de genre
par @bstorme.bsky.social et Martin Storme
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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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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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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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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...

Pourquoi le féminin générique ? Parce que son interprétation est plus neutre (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...)

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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...

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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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...

A more accessible summary, meant for a wider audience: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

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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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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...

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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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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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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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

Jalapa Mazatec is reported to have phonemic creaky vowels: www.jstor.org/stable/30028...

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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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Chez moi, habemus pas PAM

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challenge accepted!

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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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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...

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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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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it reminds me of tonogenesis (consonant contrasts reinterpreted as tone contrasts)

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For more reliable AI, academics should edit Wikipedia Letter to the Editor

Interesting perspective on academia and Wikipedia: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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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...

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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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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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.

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.

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

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Vous disjonctez !

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Updated programme available: www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/con...

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