Research areas for the 2018-2023 evaluation period

Research at the LPP was organized around six themes.
• The theme ‘Languages of the world: description et modeling’ aims to reinforce the connections between phonological modeling and empirical and typological approaches.
• The theme ‘Clinical phonetics, atypical voice and speech’ investigates variation in the production of voice and speech and the notion of ‘normality.’
• The theme ‘Variation, temporal organization and speech processing’ aims to better understand the principles underlying the interaction between different components of the sensorimotor system implicated in the production of speech.
• The theme ‘Acquisition and multilingualism’ studies phonetic and phonological aspects of acquisition, production and perception in first and foreign languages for children and adults.
• The theme ‘Natural language processing and corpus linguistics’ seeks to predict regularities and variation among languages and speakers based on corpus analysis, and includes techniques drawn from artificial intelligence.
• The theme ‘Experimental foundations of phonetics’ focuses on the development of methods and tools for experimental phonetics that address the biology (anatomy, physiology), physics (acoustics), psychology and social aspects of language sound systems and the sounds of individual languages.