Publications

(2021). Deviants Are Detected Faster at the End of Verse-Like Sound Sequences. Frontiers in Psychology 12.

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(2021). Gender assignment strategies and L1 effects in the elicited production of mixed Spanish-Basque DPs. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.

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(2019). The emergence of verse templates through iterated learning. Journal of Language Evolution 4(1), 28–43.

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(2018). Testing the robustness of final strictness in verse lines. Studia Metrica et Poetica 5(2), 55–76.

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(2018). Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding. Utrecht: LOT.

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In songs, words and melodies are not randomly aligned. I develop computational methods to infer the alignment rules used by different languages when creating songs. I’m also interested in testing experimentally speakers’ intuitions on what constitutes a good/bad textsetting.

Different languages create verse according to different principles (e.g. counting syllables, following a pattern of accents or tones). This project wants to facilitate cross-linguistic comparisons of versification by gathering bibliographical references about the structural principles underlying songs and poems, particularly in lesser-known languages.

When creating lines of poems or songs, exceptions are more common at the beginning rather than the end of lines. This is well-described for some Indo-European languages, but, does it hold for other traditions too? How do we explain this asymmetry?

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