Annie Rialland | |
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Born | Jans, France | March 17, 1948
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Paris Descartes University |
Thesis | Une langue à tons en terrasses, le gulmancema (1978) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Annie Rialland (born March 17,1948,in Jans,near Nantes,France) is a French linguist who is Director of Research emerita of the CNRS Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (Paris). Her main domains of expertise are phonetics,phonology,prosody,and African languages. [1]
In 1978 Rialland defended her doctoral thesis,“Une langue àtons en terrasses,le gulmancema" at the University of Paris 5. [2] In 1988 she defended her thèse d’état, [3] “Systèmes prosodiques africains ou fondements empiriques pour un modèle multilinéaire," [4] at the University of Nice.
From the beginning,her scientific approach combined phonetic and phonological perspectives (autosegmental phonology,in particular). Over the years,her work investigated a broad range of languages,mainly African (from various language families:Gur,Mandé,Atlantic,Bantu),but also French and the whistled language of La Gomera. She has also supervised doctoral theses on the phonetics and phonology of a diverse range of languages (Berber,Bantu languages,Japanese,among others). [5]
With Jacqueline Vaissière,Rialland co-directed the Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (LPP) in Paris for 15 years,from 1991 to 2006. [6] Under their direction,the research orientation of the LPP turned towards integrating phonology and phonetics,based on experimental methods.
While at the LPP,Rialland was involved in a number of international collaborative projects funded by leading funding agencies. She co-directed,with Laura J. Downing,a French-German ANR-DFG project,BANTUPSYN,devoted to the Phonology-syntax Interface in Bantu languages (2009–2012). [7] Rialland was one of the co-pilots of DIAREF,a project on child language acquisition (2010–2013). [8] From 2015 to 2018 Rialland was a member of the French-German ANR-DFG project,BULB,which aims to apply cutting edge speech technologies to help document and analyze unwritten languages (2015–2018). [9]
Rialland was President of the Sociétéde Linguistique de Paris in 2016. [10] She received an Honor Award from the West African Linguistic Society in 2017. In 2019 she was elected to the Academy of Europe. [11]
She was married to G. Nick Clements,an American theoretical phonologist;they are the parents of two children,William R. Clements and Celia A. Clements. [12]
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