Dr. Michal Temkin Martínez is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics with the Department of English. She earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Southern California (USC). Her main areas of research focus on phonology and phonetics with a particular interest in variation and exceptionality. Her research on variation has focused on Modern Hebrew and Rioplatense Spanish. Dr. Temkin Martínez has been at Boise State University since Fall 2009 and has taught Introduction to Language Studies, Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (Special Topics), Psycholinguistics, Applied English Linguistics, and the Senior Seminar in Linguistics. She currently serves as the adviser for the Boise State Linguistics Association.
Articles & Conference Proceedings
On the Interaction of Variation and Exceptionality in Modern Hebrew Spirantization, Proceedings of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV40) Conference (2011)
Modern Hebrew (MH) spirantization is a variable phenomenon with many exceptions. Adam (2002) claims that...
Exceptionality and Variation in Modern Hebrew Spirantization, Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2008)
This paper presents an analysis of allophony, exceptionality, and variation in Modern Hebrew spirantization within...
Exceptions Encoded at the Segmental Level, Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2008)
This paper discusses the need for including treatment of exceptions as segmental-level phenomena in the...
Presentations
Modeling Acceptability of Variation in Modern Hebrew, Third Annual Tampa Workshop on Syntax, Semantics, and Phonology, University of South Florida (2012)
mLearning Scholars Panel (with Allan Heaps, Barbara Schroeder, David Rickels, Nicole Molumby, Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Michal Temkin Martinez, Sam Matson, Lutana Haan, Sharon Tabor, Denice Liley, and Yu-Chang Hsu), Mobile Learning Symposium (2011)
The Spring 2011 mLearning Scholars will discuss their experience as a panel. Questions will be...
Razing the Standards: Building and Implementing a Linguistically Informed K-12 Curriculum in a Climate of Ignorance (with Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, Michal Temkin Martinez, Jean Mulder, David Pippin, Jeff Reaser, and Graeme Trousdale), Boise State Linguistics Lab (2011)
Language study in K‐12 settings should provide a platform for children to develop an awareness...
An Experimental Investigation of Variation in Modern Hebrew, North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (2010)
This paper reports the results of an experimental rating task testing the acceptability of variation...
Acceptability of Variation in Modern Hebrew Spirantization, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (2009)
Modern Hebrew spirantization is an allophonic distribution where the stops [p], [b], and [k] regularly...
Dissertation
Sources of Non-conformity in Phonology: Variation and Exceptionality in Modern Hebrew Spirantization (Dissertation) (2010)
This dissertation investigates the integration of two sources of non-conformity – exceptionality and variation –...