Benjamin Storme is an Assistant Professor of French linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His main areas of specialization are phonology and experimental linguistics.

More information about Benjamin Storme

Fields of interest

• Phonology
• Phonetics
• Morphology

Research

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 and word patterns.

Grants and awards

• Open Competition XS (2023)
• Leiden University Fund (2022)

Curriculum vitae

Key publications

• Storme, Benjamin. 2024. Paradigm uniformity effects on French liaison. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 
• Storme, Benjamin. 2023. A method to evaluate systemic constraints in probabilistic grammars. Linquistic Inquiry. 
• Benjamin Storme (2021). Not only size matters: limits to the Law of Three Consonants in French phonology. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1). 
• Benjamin Storme (2021). Implicational generalizations in morphological syncretism: the role of communicative biases. Journal of Linguistics.
• Benjamin Storme (2019). Contrast enhancement as motivation for closed syllable laxing and open syllable tensing. Phonology 36, 303-340.
• Benjamin Storme (2017). The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels.Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2(1), p.64.