Nasals are the colour of the morning sky: synaesthetic correlates of phonological distinctive features
Maria Copot (2017). Nasals are the colour of the morning sky: synaesthetic correlates of phonological distinctive features. BA Thesis.
CV
Education
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
Work experience
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3
Publications
Fauxpacity: an analogical reanalysis of phonological opacity and evidence in favour
Maria Copot (2018). Fauxpacity: an analogical reanalysis of phonological opacity and evidence in favour. MA Thesis.
A word-and-paradigm workflow for fieldwork annotation
Maria Copot, Sara Court, Noah Diewald, Stephanie Antetomaso, Micha Elsner. (2022). "A word-and-paradigm workflow for fieldwork annotation". Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages.
Idiosyncratic frequency as a measure of derivation vs. inflection
Maria Copot, Timothee Mickus, Olivier Bonami. (2023). "Idiosyncratic frequency as a measure of derivation vs. inflection". Journal of Language Modelling. 10, (2), 193--240.
Baseless derivation: the behavioural reality of derivational paradigms
Maria Copot, Olivier Bonami. (2024). "Baseless derivation: the behavioural reality of derivational paradigms". Cognitive Linguistics.
Behavioural evidence for implicative paradigmatic relations
Maria Copot, Olivier Bonami. (2024). "Behavioural evidence for implicative paradigmatic relations". Mental Lexicon. 18, (2), 177--217.
Eesthetic: A Paralex Lexicon of Estonian Paradigms
Sacha Beniamine, Mari Aigro, Matthew Baerman, Jules Bouton, Maria Copot. (2024). "Eesthetic: A Paralex Lexicon of Estonian Paradigms". Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).
Stranger than paradigms: word embedding benchmarks don’t align with inflectional morphology
Timothee Mickus, Maria Copot. (2024). "Stranger than paradigms: word embedding benchmarks don't align with inflectional morphology". Society for Computation in Linguistics. 7, (1), 173--189.
The influence of prescriptivism on French verbal defectiveness
Maria Copot, Andrea Sims. (2025). "The influence of prescriptivism on French verbal defectiveness". Linguistics.
Talks
Nasals are the colour of the morning sky: evidence for phonological features from synaesthesia
Conference Talk at Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fauxpacity: a functionalist reanalysis of phonological opacity
Conference Talk at Study Association for Linguistics in Leiden, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands, Leiden, Netherlands
Metatheoretical issues on opacity and implications for modeling
Conference Talk at Workshop on computational models of morpho(phono)logy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Is defectiveness that surprising? The influence of paradigmatic predictability on token frequency
Invited Talk at Feast and Famine project workshop, Online, Online
A word-and-paradigm workflow for fieldwork annotation
Conference Talk at Fifth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, workshop at the Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Acquiring morphological generalisations: evidence from artificial language learning
Internal Talk at Séminaire de linguistique expérimentale, Université Paris Cité,
Experimentally prodding at the mental lexicon: the case study of surprisal
Internal Talk at Séminaire doctoral Structures Formelles du Langage - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité and Université Paris Vincennes - St Denis,
Spare us the surprise: the interplay of paradigmatic predictability and frequency
Conference Talk at 3rd International Symposium of Morphology, Online, Online
Striking out on one’s own – idiosyncratic frequency as a measure of inflection vs derivation
Conference Talk at Paradigmatic Morphology 2, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France, Bordeaux, France
The impact of form predictability and frequency on the internal organisation of the mental lexicon
Invited Talk at Synners (Syntax and Semantics Group), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, Columbus, OH, USA
A community-centered workflow for morphological annotation
Conference Talk at Language Documentation and Archiving, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany
Behavioural evidence on the interplay of form predictability and cell frequency
Conference Talk at 20th International Morphology Meeting, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
Defectiveness as a product of prescriptivism: a behavioural study
Conference Talk at 20th International Morphology Meeting, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
That icky feeling: the role of linguistic prescriptivism in speakers’ experience of defectiveness
Internal Talk at LingLunch, Université Paris Cité,
A behavioural perspective on paradigmatic structure in inflection and derivation
Invited Talk at Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK, Surrey, UK
A workflow for the Morphosyntactic Analysis of Underdocumented Languages
Invited Talk at Lab for Applied Language Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, Newcastle, Australia
Baseless derivation: the behavioural reality of derivational paradigms
Conference Talk at International Symposium of Morphology 2023, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, Nancy, France
Reconciling the contradictory phenomenology of defectiveness
Invited Talk at Feast and Famine project meeting, Zagreb, Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Rethinking Tools for the Morphosyntactic Analysis of Underdocumented Languages
Invited Talk at Language Technology Research Seminar, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, Finland
The linguistic prescriptivism filter on word form uncertainty: a cross-linguistic study
Conference Talk at 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece
Truncation as a source of uninflectedness in French verbs
Conference Talk at 45 Jahrestagung der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany, Cologne, Germany
A network-based configurational typology of inflectional irregularity
Conference Talk at International Morphology Meeting 2024, Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria
Community structure in inflectional networks
Conference Talk at Langues et Langage à la croisée des Disciplines 2024, Paris, France, Paris, France
Eesthetic: A Paralex Lexicon of Estonian Paradigms
Conference Talk at The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2024, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Turin, Italy
La microvariation socio-pragmatique : Une étude du sens social de la liaison variable en France et au Québec [Socio-pragmatic microvariation: a study of the social meaning of variable liaison in France and Québec]
Conference Talk at Congrès Mondial de Linguistique française 2024, Lausanne, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
Locative functions beyond space and time: Pama-Nyungan case semantics reflect ahistorical processes
Conference Talk at Association for Linguistic Typology, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Locative polyfunctionality in Australia: Function distribution is not predicted by phylogeny or contact
Conference Talk at Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, Canberra, Australia, Canberra, Australia
Networks and nondeterminism
Conference Talk at Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 2024, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Stranger than Paradigms Word Embedding Benchmarks Don’t Align With Morphology
Conference Talk at Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2024, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, Irvine, CA, USA
The basics of causal inference (two-session masterclass)
Invited Talk at Lab for Applied Language Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, Newcastle, Australia
Teaching
Service and leadership
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