Alexander Martin
Faculteit der Letteren | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
I am an assistant professor in phonology at the
After my PhD at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where I worked under the supervision of Sharon Peperkamp, I joined a project at the Centre for Language Evolution in Edinburgh led by Jennifer Culbertson. I then returned to Paris to join the SMIC project led by Heather Burnett at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle before taking up my current position in Groningen.
You can download my full CV here. You can download stimuli, analysis scripts, and data from some of my experiments here. Additional stimuli, data, and analysis files are available in OSF repositories linked directly in publications. If you’re looking for some file and don’t seem to find it, please reach out so I can make sure to add it!
Publications
Journal articles
Martin, A., Adger, D., Abels, K., Kanampiu, P. & Culbertson, J. (2024). A universal cognitive bias in word order: Evidence from speakers whose language goes against it. Psychological Science, 35(3), 304–311.
Martin, A., Abbou, J. & Burnett, H. (2023). Indexicality and interpretation of the social world: a socio-pragmatic treatment of variable liaison. Langue Française, 219, 121–135.
Weng, C., Chitoran, I., & Martin, A. (2023). Bilingual phonological contrast perception: The influence of Quanzhou Southern Min on Mandarin non-sibilant fricative discrimination. JASA Express Letters, 3(7), 075202.
Martin, A., van Heugten, M., Kager, R., & Peperkamp, S. (2022). Marginal contrast in loanword phonology: Production and perception. Laboratory Phonology, 13(1).
Martin, A. & White, J. (2021). Vowel harmony and disharmony are not equivalent in learning. Linguistic Inquiry, 52(1), 227–239.
Martin, A., Holtz, A., Abels, K., Adger, D., & Culbertson, J. (2020). Experimental evidence for the influence of structure and meaning on linear order in the noun phrase. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 5(1), 97.
Martin, A. & Culbertson, J. (2020). Revisiting the suffixing preference: Native language affixation patterns influence perception of sequences. Psychological Science, 31(9), 1107–1116.
Martin, A. & Peperkamp, S. (2020). Phonetically natural rules benefit from a learning bias: a re-examination of vowel harmony and disharmony. Phonology, 37(1), 65–90.
Martin, A., Ratitamkul, T., Abels, K., Adger, D., & Culbertson, J. (2019). Cross-linguistic evidence for cognitive universals in the noun phrase. Linguistics Vanguard, 5(1).
Martin, A., & Peperkamp, S. (2017). Assessing the distinctiveness of phonological features in word recognition: prelexical and lexical influences. Journal of Phonetics, 62, 1–11.
Martin, A., & Peperkamp, S. (2015). Asymmetries in the exploitation of phonetic features for word recognition. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(4), EL303–EL317.
Fort, M., Martin, A., & Peperkamp, S. (2015). Consonants are more important than vowels in the bouba-kiki effect. Language and Speech, 58(2), 247–266.
Conference proceedings
Martin, A., Abbou, J., Copot, M., & Burnett, H. (2024). Socio-pragmatic microvariation: A study of the social meaning of variable liaison in France and Québec. In: Actes du 9e Congrès mondial de linguistique française (number 02009).
Weng, C., Chitoran, I., & Martin, A. (2024). Sibilant contrast production by bilingual speakers of Quanzhou Southern Min and Mandarin. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (pp. 258–261).
Weng, C., Martin, A., & Chitoran, I. (2022). Perceptual assimilation of Mandarin non-sibilant fricatives by speakers of Quanzhou Southern Min. In: Actes des XXXIVe Journées d'Études sur la Parole – JEP 2022 (pp. 375–384).
Guevara-Rukoz, A., Martin, A., Yamauchi, Y., & Minematsu, N. (2019). Prototyping a web-based phonetic training game to improve /r/-/l/ identification by Japanese learners of English. In: Proc. SLaTE 2019: 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (pp. 20–24).
Martin, A., Abels, K., Adger, D., & Culbertson, J. (2019). Do learners’ word order preferences reflect hierarchical language structure?. In: A. C. Goel, C. M. Seifart, & C. Freksa (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2303–2309). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society.
White, J., Kager., R., Linzen, T., Markopoulos, G., Martin, A., Nevins, A., Peperkamp, S., Polgárdi, K., Topintzi, N. & van de Vijver, R. (2018). Preference for locality is affected by the prefix/suffix asymmetry: Evidence from artificial language learning. In: S. Hucklebridge & M. Nelson (Eds.) Proceedings of NELS 48, Vol. 3 (pp.207–220). Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Fort, M., Weiss, A., Martin, A., & Peperkamp, S. (2013). Looking for the bouba-kiki effect in prelexical infants. In: S. Ouni, F. Berthommier & A. Jesse (Eds.) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (pp. 71–76). Lyon, France: INRIA.
You can find more information on my publications at Google scholar.