Annie Rialland
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Annie Rialland | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 March 1948 Jans, France |
| Children | 2 |
| 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 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
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
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]
