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Annie Rialland
Born (1948-03-17) March 17, 1948 (age 76)
Jans, France
Academic background
Alma materParis Descartes University
ThesisUne langue à tons en terrasses, le gulmancema (1978)
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist

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]

Education and research

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In 1978 Rialland defended her doctoral thesis, “Une langue à tons 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]

Career at the LPP

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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]

Honors

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Rialland was President of the Société de 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]

Personal life

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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]

Selected publications

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  • Clech-Darbon, Anne; Rebuschi, Georges; Rialland, Annie (1999). "Are There Cleft Sentences in French?". The Grammar of Focus. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. Vol. 24. p. 83. doi:10.1075/la.24.04cle. ISBN 978-90-272-2745-4.
  • Clements, G., & Rialland, A. (2007). Africa as a phonological area. In B. Heine & D. Nurse (Eds.), A Linguistic Geography of Africa (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact, pp. 36-85). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486272.004
  • Downing, Laura J.; Rialland, Annie (2016). Intonation in African Tone Languages. doi:10.1515/9783110503524. ISBN 9783110503524.
  • Rialland, Annie (2005). "Phonological and phonetic aspects of whistled languages". Phonology. 22 (2): 237–271. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.484.4384. doi:10.1017/S0952675705000552. S2CID 18615779.
  • Rialland, Annie (2007). "Question prosody: An African perspective". Tones and Tunes: Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody. Phonology and Phonetics. Vol. 1. pp. 35–62. doi:10.1515/9783110207569.35. ISBN 978-3-11-019057-1.
  • Rialland, Annie; Robert, Stéphane (2001). "The intonational system of Wolof". Linguistics. 39 (5). doi:10.1515/ling.2001.038.

References

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  1. ^ "Annie Rialland - Citations Index". scholar.google.fr. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  2. ^ Rialland, Annie (1979). Une langue à tons en terrasses, le gulmancema. www.sudoc.abes.fr (Thesis). Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  3. ^ "Le doctorat : une tradition à l'aube de sa (potentielle) transformation". www.letudiant.fr (in French). 7 June 2017. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  4. ^ Rialland, Annie. "Systèmes prosodiques africains..." www.sudoc.abes.fr. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  5. ^ supérieur (ABES), Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement. "theses.fr, explorer les 42 thèses pour annie rialland". www.theses.fr. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  6. ^ "LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR7018 - Paris3 - Un peu d'histoire". lpp.in2p3.fr. Archived from the original on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  7. ^ Lacombe, Stephanie. "Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 - ANR - BANTUPSYN". www.univ-paris3.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  8. ^ Orvig, Anne Salazar. "Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 - ANR DIAREF". www.univ-paris3.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  9. ^ Adda, Gilles; Stüker, Sebastian; Adda-Decker, Martine; Ambouroue, Odette; Besacier, Laurent; Blachon, David; Bonneau-Maynard, Hélène; Godard, Pierre; Hamlaoui, Fatima; Idiatov, Dmitry; Kouarata, Guy-Noël; Lamel, Lori; Makasso, Emmanuel-Moselly; Rialland, Annie; Van De Velde, Mark; Yvon, François; Zerbian, Sabine (2016), "Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier: The BULB Project", Procedia Computer Science, 81: 8–14, doi:10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.023
  10. ^ "Présidents et secrétaires - Société de linguistique de Paris". www.slp-paris.com. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
  11. ^ "Academy of Europe: Rialland Annie". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  12. ^ "Remembering G. Nick Clements". lpp.in2p3.fr. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-12-07.
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