Maxime Papillon

I am currently out of academia and the purpose of this website may change in the future.

Summary

My linguistic work is primarily on phonology and morphology. A primary aspect of my research is to investigate the potential of Multiprecedence Phonology of the type of Raimy (2000) to explain issues of non-concatenative word formation (reduplication, infixation, parafixation, suppletion, allomorphy, lexically-specific phonology,...) and long-distance phonology (word-tone, vowel-harmony,...).

Additional projects have involved probing the granularity of phonological representation through artificial language learning experiment; breaking down the operations of phonology into their minimal logical components in order to find the set of operations that can account for all phonology working mostly with a substance-free approach, and evaluating the formal properties of tonal phenomena.

Publications

The Match-Extend Serialization Algorithm in Multiprecedence. Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. Association for Computational Linguistics. Pages 23-31.

Precedence and the Lack Thereof: Precedence-Relation-Oriented Phonology (Doctoral dissertation).

Targeting Underspecified Segments: A formal analysis of feature changing and feature filling rules. Lingua, Volume 148, September 2014, Pages 240-253. With Alan Bale and Charles Reiss.

Teaching

Phonology II. University of Maryland. Spring 2019.

Seminar on Long-Distance Phenomena in Phonology. University of Maryland. Fall 2018.

Introduction to substance-free phonology, mini-course taught at the Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) summer school. Lagodekhi, Georgia. July 2016.

Reduplication in Derivational Theories, mini-course taught at the Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) summer school. Lagodekhi, Georgia. August 2016.

Teaching Assistant for Phonology I. University of Maryland. Fall 2017

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Linguistics. University of Maryland. Spring 2017

Teaching Assistant for Language & Mind. University of Maryland. Fall 2016

Teaching Assistant for Advanced Phonology. University of Ottawa. Winter 2015

Marker for Intermediate Phonetics. University of Ottawa. Winter 2015

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Phonology. University of Ottawa. Fall 2014

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Phonetics. University of Concordia. Winter 2014

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Syntax. University of Concordia. Fall 2013

Personal Tutor for Introduction to Phonology. University of Concordia. Winter 2013

Presentations and posters

Representation and the range of possible (morpho)phonology. Invited talk at the Michigan State Linguistics Colloquium. January 2022.

The Match-Extend Serialization Algorithm in Multiprecedence. SIGMORPHON. August 2021

Linear order and simultaneity in the phonological representation. Invited talk at the (SFP)² for NAPhC. June 2021.

Simpler is Better: A Phonological Representation for Non-Concatenative Morphology. Invited talk at the Bilbao Morpho-Phonology circle. November 2020.

Feature-Nesting in Precedence-Relation-Oriented Phonology. NAPhCxi. May 2020. [Accepted, cancelled due to COVID-19.]

Precedence-Relation Oriented Phonology: an Introduction. Invited talk at the Weśeñña ṣpä Kantwo reading group. March 2020. UPenn.

Harmony & Word-Tone in Precedence-Relation-Oriented Phonology. LSA. January 2020. New Orleans. Poster.

A Simpler Representation for Phonology: Vowel Harmony, Word Tones, Suppletion. Invited talk. December 2019. Stony Brooks.

Suppletive Allomorphy Without a Morphological Module in Precedence-Relation-Oriented Phonology. Mo-MOT4. October 2019. Queen's University, Kingston.

Precedence-Relation-Oriented Phonology: Vowel Harmony and Word Tones. Invited talk at the Workshop of Theoretical Phonology (WTPh). May 5th 2019. Concordia University, Montreal

Gender bias in representation and publishing rates across subfields. Linguistic Society of America (LSA), January 2019. With Hannah Muller, Phoebe Gaston, Bethany Dickerson, Adam Liter, Karthic Durvasula, Mina Hirzel, Kasia Hitczenko, Margaret Kandel, Paulina Lyskawa, Jackie Nelligan, & Laurel Perkins. New York, NY, USA

The logical phonology of Hungarian voicing assimilation. AMP. October 2018. UC San Diego. Poster with Alëna Aksënova & Charles Reiss.

Match-Extend Serialization for Reduplication in Multiprecedence Phonology. NAPhCX. May 2018. Concordia University, Montreal.

One-Relation Representation for a Simpler-Than-Strings Phonology. GLOW41. April 2018. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

Deriving Harmony Pattern from Graph Geometries. GLOW41. April 2018. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Poster.

Attested tone circles are not a challenge for rule-based phonology as they are not circles. Manchester Phonology Meeting 21 (MFM). May 2017. University of Manchester.

Learning Novel Contrasts Based on Small Phonetic Details. Ninth North-American Phonology Conference (NaPhC9). May 2016. Concordia University, Montreal.

Two Types of Null Exponents: Locality and Serialization. Montreal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto (MOLT) Phonology Workshop. University of Toronto, Toronto. March 2015.

Complex Precedence Graphs in Distributed Morphology. Societas Liguistica Europea 2014 (SLE2014) , workshop on Non-automatic Alternations in Phonology. September 2014. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

Suppletive allomorphy via complex precedence graphs. Eighth North-American Phonology Conference (NaPhC8). May 2014. Concordia University, Montreal.

Targeting Underspecified Segments: A formal analysis of feature changing and feature filling rules. Poster at the eighth North-American Phonology Conference (NaPhC8). May 2014. Concordia University, Montreal. With Alan Bale and Charles Reiss.

Complex Graphs in Distributed Morphology. Montreal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MO{L}T{H}). March 2014. McGill University, Montreal.

Sets of features vs. sets of sets of features: A notational innovation for phonological rules. Poster at Manchester Phonology Meeting 21 (MFM). University of Manchester, May, 2013. With Alan Bale and Charles Reiss.

Allomorphy in Multiprecedence Morphology. Invited speaker at the end-of-the-year event of the Concordia Linguistics Student Association. April 2013. Concordia University, Montreal.

Targeting Underspecified Segments. Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop (MOT). March, 2013. University of Ottawa. With Alan Bale and Charles Reiss.