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PROFILE

 

RESEARCH TEACHING

  • Experimental phonetics
  • Physiological and acoustic phonetics
  • General phonetics
  • Comparative phonetics of the world’s languages
  • Historical and comparative linguistics
  • Musical acoustics
  • Ethnomusicology

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Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle / ILPGAdidier.demolin@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
Laboratoire de phonétique et phonologieDepartement ILPGA
4 rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris, France
Tél. : (+33) 1.44.32.05.70
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http://demolin.laboratoirephonetiquephonologie.fr

TRAINING  
  • Degree in Philosophy and aggregation. Dissertation: Research on the role of mathematics in the thought of Giordano Bruno. Free University of Brussels (1979).
  • Master in African Linguistics. Dissertation: Elements of Nyanja grammar, Bantu language of zone N. Free University of Brussels (1983).
  • Doctoral thesis: Mangbetu: phonetic and phonological studies. The greatest distinction. Annex thesis: By arguing that the acquisition of language depends on abstract genetic structures, Jacques Mehler defends an erroneous view of evolution and culture. Free University of Brussels (1992).
  TEACHING CAREER  
  • At the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris 3
    • Professor Emeritus since 1/09/2022
    • Professor (Exceptional class) since 1/09/2019
    • Professor (PR1) from 09/1/2014 to 08/30/2019
 
  • At Stendhal University, Grenoble 3
    • Professor (PR1) from 1/10/2010 to 31/08/2014
 
  • At the Free University of Brussels
    • Full-time teacher since 1/10/2003
    • Part-time teacher from 1/10/1995 to 30/09/2003
    • Lecturer 1/10/1993 to 30/09/1995
 
  • At the University of Provence (Aix-en-Provence)
    • Professor (PR2) from 1/10/1996 to 31/08/1999
  VISITING PROFESSOR  
  • 2022: African Linguistic School, Porto Novo, Benin.
  • 2018: African Linguistic School, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
  • 2016: Frysk Akademie, KNWA Holland; research project on glottalization, diphthongs, dialectal variation and nasalization in Frisian.
  • 2014: Universidade de Campinas, Lafape (Levi-Strauss chair) course on the origin and evolution of language and speech
  • 2012, 2013: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Levi-Strauss chair); courses on the origin and evolution of language and speech and laboratory phonology courses.
  • 2009: University of São Paulo, Brazil; laboratory phonology course.
  • 2009: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; courses in laboratory phonology and musical acoustics.
  • 2008: University of São Paulo, Brazil; laboratory phonology course.
  • 2007: Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil; laboratory phonology course.
  • 2007: Associação Brasileira de Lingüística, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; methods of experimental phonetics.
  • 2003-2007: University of São Paulo, Brazil; experimental phonetics methods, laboratory phonology courses, acoustic phonetics, field linguistics.
  • 2003 and 2005: Pontifical Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil; laboratory phonology course.
  • 2002: University of Lubumsbashi, Congo; general linguistics and experimental phonetics.
  • 2000: University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; methods of experimental phonetics.
  • 1999: Universidade Federal do Minas Geiras, Brazil, articulatory phonology and experimental phonetic methods.
  SCIENTIFIC CAREER   RESEARCH TOPICS  
  • Development of experimental methods in phonetics.
  • Development of the quantal theory in phonetics and phonology.
  • Description of (new) phenomena in the phonetic and phonological systems of the world’s languages.
  • Dynamics of phonological systems.
  • Evolution of speech and language.
  • Ethnomusicology: Music from the North-East of the D.R. Congo; Music from the Xingu Brazil; Music from Colombia.
  Research Positions  
  • 2022-: EVALAB Researcher - Evolutionary Anthropology Team, Institute of Evolutionary Sciences, Montpellier
  • 2014-: Researcher, Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology, Paris 3, UMR 7018
  • 2010-2014: Researcher, Gipsa-Lab Grenoble
  • 2002 : Chef de Travaux, Free University of Brussels
  • 1993-2001: First assistant, Free University of Brussels.
  • 1992-1998: Researcher, Dynamic Language Laboratory, University of Lyon2.
  • 1991-1993: Assistant ad interim Free University of Brussels.
  • 1990-1992: Researcher, Oral Tradition Languages and Civilizations Laboratory (LACITO-CNRS, Paris).
  • 1989-1991: Researcher at the Department of Linguistics, Free University of Brussels.
  • 1987-1990: Researcher, American Museum of National History.
  • 1987-1988: Researcher, Harvard Ituri project.
  • 1983-1986: Researcher, Ethnomusicological Center Paul Collaer, Tervuren.
  • 1980-1982: Researcher, National Institute of Scientific Research Butare, Rwanda.
  Member of scientific societies:  
  • Full member of the Academia Europaea ‘The European Academy’ (Linguistics-Phonetics);
  • Honorary full member of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences of Belgium (class of human sciences);
  • Associate member of the Frysk Akademy, Leeuwarden;
  • Research Associate, University of Dar es Salaam;
  • Acoustical Society of America;
  • French Society of Acoustics;
  • International Phonetic Association;
  • Linguistic Society of America;
  • French Society of Phoniatrics;
  • French Society of Ethnomusicology;
  • French Society of Primatology;
Awards and Recognition:  
  • Prize of the Belgian Vocation Foundation, 1982 (linguistics in the field);
  • Prize of the International Phonetic Association, San Francisco, 1999 (Original contribution to the description of unknown sounds: voiceless and unexploded implosive palatal consonants in Hendo);
  • ‘Choc’ du Monde de la Musique (1990 Pygmies Efe, 1991 Pygmies Efe, Kango, Asua, 1992 Music of Kenya);
  • ‘Coup de coeur’ from the Charles Cros Academy, (2004 Mangbetu, 2005 Sikiliza music from DR Congo, 2009 Zande);
  • Francqui Chair, (2009-2010): Origin and evolution of speech;
  • Freeman Prize University of Amherst, Massachusetts (2010): Recursion and formalization in the vocalizations of Brazilian muriqui monkeys;
Administrative responsibilities  
  • Direction of the ILPGA at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 (2017-2021);
  • Representative of the ILPGA phonetics diploma at Doctoral school ED 622 (from 2017);
  • ILPGA International Relations (2016-2017);
  • Budget Commission of the University of Paris 3; (2015-2016);
  • Member of the council of UFR LLD;
  • Head of the Linguistic Systems and Dialectology (SLD) team at Gipsa-Lab. (between 2010 and 2014);
  • Acting director of the speech and cognition department (2011-2012) at Gispa-Lab.
  • Director of the Phonology Laboratory of the Free University of Brussels (1996-2010); Co-Director of the Speech Sciences Laboratory of the Wallonia-Brussels Universities Academy (2005-2010);
  Responsibilities and mandates (international, national)  
  • Board member of the International Phonetic Association (2003-2011);
  • Member of the administrative commission of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences of Belgium (2008-2012).
  • Participation in the editorial committees of journals: Parole; Phonetica; International Journal of Italian Linguistics; Caderno of Semantica;
  Animation of research teams  
  • Director of the Phonology Laboratory at the Free University of Brussels (1996-2003);
  • Linguistic systems and dialectology team at Gipsa-lab in Grenoble (2010-2014);
  • Phonetics and phonological complexity of Labex EFL (2015-2020);
  • Labfield operation of axis 1 of Labex EFL (2020-2022);
CAREER SUMMARY

After having completed my humanities in scientific section A (mathematics) and passed the maturity exam (admission to the university in Belgium, at the time) in mathematics (spherical trigonometry), I obtained a License in Philosophy and my aggregation at the Free University of Brussels in 1979 with a dissertation: Research on the role of mathematics in the thought of Giordano Bruno. I finished my master's degree (special license) in African linguistics at the Free University of Brussels in 1983 with a dissertation: Elements of Nyanja grammar, Bantu language of zone N. My doctorate was defended at the Free University of Brussels in 1992 with a thesis: Mangbetu: phonetic and phonological studies and an annexed thesis entitled: By arguing that the acquisition of language depends on abstract genetic structures, Jacques Mehler defends an erroneous view of evolution and culture.

I started my career in Rwanda at the INRS (National Institute for Scientific Research) at Butare (1980-1982). Then I worked in the department of ethnomusicology (Centre ethnomusicologique Paul Collaer) of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium (1983-1986). After that, I worked for a project of the American Museum of Natural History in New York on Mangbetu language and music in northeastern Congo (Zaire at the time) (1987-1990). This work is the basis of my PhD, defended in 1992, at the Free University of Brussels where I worked part-time from 1990 and then as permanent researcher (1st assistant and then chef de Travaux) from 1993. I also participated in a research project of Harvard University in the Ituri, DR Congo, to work on the language and music of the Efe pygmies (1987-1988). Then, I collaborated with the Dynamique du Langage laboratory (DDL) of the University of Lyon2 (1992-1998). I was professor at the University of Aix-en-Provence between 1996 and 1999 and director of the phonology laboratory of the Free University of Brussels between 1993 and 2003. I was associate professor and professor at the University libre de Bruxelles between 1995 and 2010. I was a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo in Brazil between 2003 and 2010

My geographical mobility is explained by the teaching and research contracts that I had in Belgium, the United States, France and Brazil and by the collaborations that I maintained with colleagues from different universities from around the world: Shigeki Kaji and Hirosi Nakagawa in Japan; Peter Ladefoged, John Ohala and John Kingston in the United States; Francisco Mendes, César Ades, Eleonora Albano and Luciana Storto in Brazil; Moges Yigezu in Ethiopia; Tony Traill in South Africa; André Montingea in the Congo; Fang Hu in China; Tulio Rojas in Colombia; Esther Zendejas in Mexico; Alice Turk and Jim Scobbie in Edinburgh and Jane Stuart Smith in Glasgow; Michael Karani in Tanzania. I also regularly conduct field research to collect data. These missions took me to Congo, Ethiopia, Botswana, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Brasil and Colombia.

My career has developed around two disciplines: linguistics, focused on phonetics and phonology, and ethnomusicology. The multidisciplinary aspect of my work comes from collaborations and projects that I had with researchers from the Center for the Study of Nonlinear Phenomena of the Free University of Brussels, in particular with Jean-Louis Deneubourg, to process and model dynamic aspects and self-organization of phonetic and phonological systems. I collaborated with biologists René Thomas and Nicolas Glandsdorff who encouraged me to work on the biological aspects of language and human speech. I have been collaborating for many years with medical doctors on questions of physiology and anatomy of speech, Sergio Hassid, Lise Crevier Buchman and Stéphane Hans. I collaborated with physicists, Christophe Segebarth and Thierry Metens, with whom I developed several "firsts" in magnetic resonance studies on speech (first use of MRI for the study of speech in my doctoral thesis, first multi-slice, 3-dimensional and real-time measurements). I have been collaborating with ethologists and specialists in animal communication, César Ades, Francisco Mendes, Thierry Aubin, Alban Lemasson, Martine Hausberger and Felipe Toledo for several years. In phonetics, I collaborated with an engineer from Aix-en-Provence, Bernard Teston, in order to develop new tools for working in the field (the portable EVA system and portable electromyography devices). I also maintained a long collaboration with John Ohala at the University of Berkeley, where I have made regular stays since my doctoral thesis, as well as with Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

In ethnomusicology, I have collaborated with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren and the Paul Collaer Ethnomusicological Center on various projects (research and musical education). I collaborated with the research group of Simha Arom in Lacito. I had a long collaboration with Benoit Quersin and the Institute of National Museums of Zaire (IMNZ), which later became the Institute of National Museums of Congo. I collaborated with the research group of Simha Arom and Suzanne Fürniss at the Musée de l'homme in Paris.

TEACHING

1. EXPERIMENTAL PHONETICS (MASTER): 12 WEEKS

The central question of this course is: what is experimentation in phonetics? Phonetics can be defined as Rousselot did in 1923 in his opening lesson at the Collège de France: ‘As we understand it today, phonetics is the science of the sounds of language. It is a branch of acoustics, natural, psychological and social sciences. This complexity could only have delayed progress. Phonetics therefore involves the physical, biological, psychological and social aspects of the sounds of human languages’. To explain the phenomena of speech and their variations in the languages of the world we must consider that phonetic systems are open systems and that there is no a priori reason to believe that they are based on a universal inventory of traits or elements. The only real limits are those defined by physics, the morphology of the vocal tract, by constraints on hearing and also those on cognition and the brain.

The course follows the approach initiated by Claude Bernard (1865) for whom the observation of a fact contradicting accepted ideas requires making a hypothesis and an experiment to explain this new fact. The experiment is an observation provoked under determined conditions with a view to checking the hypothesis, which is only an instrument for discovering the truth. Observation and experience alone give knowledge of facts. The ambition must be to answer the how of things and not the why. Claude Bernard also insists on the fragility and the provisional nature of scientific theories. He also distinguished between two main categories of experiences, those produced by nature (Natural experiences – dysfunctions in pathology, lapsus, language games, effects of the alteration of articulators-) and those produced by man in the laboratory. The course also emphasizes the role of statistics and their use in the processing of experimental data.

Some theoretical points developed: notions of threshold in continuous variables, continuous time vs. discrete time (quantal theory); articulatory control (what is its nature?); create disturbances that alter the system to test hypotheses: bite-block, aerodynamic disturbances (leaks, pressure changes).

 

References

Historical

  • Bernard, Claude. (1865). Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale. Paris. Baillière. (Reéd Flammarion). 
  • Rousselot, Abbé. (1923). La phonétique expérimentale. Leçon d’ouverture du cours professé au Collège de France. Paris. Boivin.

Basic 

  • Hardcastle, W., Laver, J. & Gibbon, F. (2013). The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Wiley Blackwell.
  • Lass, N. 1996. Principles of experimental phonetics. Mosby, St Louis
  • Redford, M. (2013). The Handbook of Speech Production. Wiley Blackwell.
  • Stevens, K.N. (1972). The quantal nature of speech: Evidence from articulatory-acoustic data. In P.B. Denes & E.E. David Jr. (Eds.), Human communication: A unified view. 51–66. New-York: McGraw Hill. 
  • Stevens, K.N. (1989). On the quantal nature of speech. Journal of Phonetics, 17, 3–46.

 

2. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ACOUSTIC PHONETICS (MASTER): 12 WEEKS

 

The main topics of this course are devoted to the fundamental aspects of the anatomy and physiology of speech and how the different speech sounds are produced. Topics cover the nervous system, speech muscles, respiration, and phonation. The anatomy of the peripheral and central auditory system is also covered in this course. 

The course is focused on two themes: the physiology and the acoustics of speech sounds. Physiological phonetics studies the role, the function, the mechanical aspects, the physical and biological organization of speech sounds’ components. 

The acoustic aspects deal with the analysis, the source and production of sounds and their influence on the mechanisms of hearing, the perception of pitch and timbre and certain sound illusions.

 

Physiology

  • Anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system, larynx and upper airways (1), (2);
  • Aerodynamics: breathing in speech, control of Ps, types of stress (3);
  • Larynx: Control of F0; phonation types; voice.
  • The neurological bases of speech (4);
  • Neuromuscular and articulatory aspects: velo-pharyngeal port: Nasality and nasalization phenomena; Pharyngeal-oral: Vowels; manners of articulation;
  • Lips: Labial gestures (6):

 

Acoustics

  • Dispersion theory: Acoustics of vowels. (7);
  • Nomograms & acoustic theory: Acoustics of consonants. (8);
  • Quantal theory: Continuum discretization; invariants. (9);
  • Anatomy of the ear, auditory phonetics: Speech perception (10);
  • Categorical perception: VOT; Locus equations. (11);
  • Synthesis on theory; models & data (12)

 

References

  • Catford, I. (1977). Fundamentals Problems in Phonetics. Edinburgh University Press;
  • Fant, G. (1960). Acoustic theory of speech production. The Hague: Mouton
  • Heller, E.J. Why You Hear What You Hear : an Experimental Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychacoustics. Princeton University Press
  • Hixon, T.J., Weismer, G. & Hoit; J.D. (2020). Preclinical Speech Science: Anatomy, Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception. San Diego, Plural Publishing.
  • Kent, R. D. (1997). The Speech Sciences. Thomson. Delmar learning  
  • Lindblom, B. (1986). Phonetic universals in vowel systems. In J.J. Ohala, & J.J. Jaeger (Eds.), Experimental phonology. 13–44. Orlando, FL: Academic Press. 
  • Lisker, L., & Abramson, A. S. (1964). A cross-language study of voicing in initial stops:   Acoustical measurements. Word, 20, 384–422.
  • Stevens, K.N. (1972). The quantal nature of speech: Evidence from articulatory-acoustic data. In P.B. Denes & E.E. David Jr. (Eds.), Human communication: A unified view. 51–66. New-York: McGraw Hill. 
  • Stevens, K.N. (1989). On the quantal nature of speech. Journal of Phonetics, 17, 3–46.
  • Stevens, K. (2000). Acoustic phonetics. Cambridge. MIT press.
  • Sussman, H.M. & Shore, J. (1996). Locus equations as phonetic descriptors of consonantal place of articulation Perception & Psychophysics, 58 (6),936-946.
  • Titze, I. 1994. Principles of voice production. Prentice Hall, Engelwood Cliffs.
  • Turk, A. & Shattuck-Huffnagel, S. 2020. Speech Timing: implications for theories of phonology, phonetics, and speech motor control. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 
  • Vaissière, J. (2007). Area functions and articulatory modelling as a tool for investigating the articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual properties of sounds across languages. In M.-J. Solé, P.S. Beddor and M. Ohala. Experimental approaches to phonology. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 54-71.

 

Database: Didier Demolin, Sergio Hassid, Clara Ponchard, Shi Yu & Roland Trouville. Speech aerodynamic database. LPP, ILPGA, ArtSpeech.

 

Software: Visible vowels; Praat; Winpitch; Phonedit; Audacity; WhyYouHearWhatYou Hear; VocalTractLab.

 

Models: JvtCal; VocaltractLab

 

Sites web : www.discoveringspeech.wiley.com; www.whyyouhearwhatyouhear.com. 

 


 

 

3. GENERAL PHONETICS (BACHELOR 2): 12 WEEKS

 

Acoustic phonetics: waveform, acoustics of phonation types; fundamental frequency and declination; Formant calculation, F-pattern; vocal tract model for vowels; adaptive dispersal theory; acoustics of stops, fricatives and sonorant consonants; coarticulation.

Perceptual phonetics: basic notions of hearing and the anatomy of the peripheral auditory system; acoustic cues; absence of invariance in the perception of the segments; categorical perception, locus equations; theories of speech perception.

 

  1. Source filter theory, vowels: tube models and perturbation theory;
  2. Spectrograms: parameters, sampling frequencies, window size;
  3. Acoustic representation of vowels, formants and acoustic space;
  4. Acoustics of consonants: stops, fricatives;
  5. Nasal, lateral;
  6. The voice: basic measures in production;
  7. Phonation types, linguistic and paralinguistic functions;
  8. API: transcription exercises in French and other languages;
  9. Varieties of French;
  10. Acoustic features of prosody, methods of fundamental frequency analysis; 
  11. Duration and quantity, accent, emphasis, prominence;
  12. Tones and intonation, declination.

 

Basic references

  • Calliope (1989). La parole et son traitement automatique. Paris. Masson. (Seulement les chapitres sur l’acoustique des sons de la parole) ; 
  • Carton, F. (1974). Introduction à la phonétique du français, Paris, Bordas ; Gick, B., Wilson, I. & Derrick, D. (2013). Articulatory phonetics. Wiley Blackwell.
  • Johnson, K. (2002). Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. Oxford. Blackwell.
  • Johnson, K. (2008). Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Oxford. Blackwell.
  • Martin, P. (2008). Phonétique acoustique. Paris. Armand Colin 
  • Zsiga, E.C. (2014). The Sounds of Language: an Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Oxford. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Vaissière, J. (2011). La phonétique, "Que sais-je ?" n°637, Paris, P.U.F.

 

Software: Visible vowels; Praat; Winpitch; Audacity;

 

Models: JvtCal; 

 

 

4. COMPARATIVE PHONETICS OF THE WORLD’S LANGUAGES (BACHELOR 3): 12 WEEKS

 

The course is devoted to study the similarities and differences between the phonetic (and phonological) systems of the world’s languages. The content focuses on a few major questions: 1. how to explain the diversity of phonetic and phonological systems found in different families of  the world’s languages? 2. What are the constraints explaining these differences? 3. How to evaluate and explain the difference in complexity between systems with few segments compared to those with many? 4. How to account for the characteristics of basic, elaborate and complex systems? 5. Are there more allophones in basic systems than in complex systems? 6. How to account for articulatory complexity? These questions are discussed from the examination of the sound systems from languages of different regions of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, Oceania. Some phenomena such as nasality, double articulations, the inventory of vowel systems, phonation types and tonal systems are studied by comparing their realizations in different language families.

 

1. Vowel systems: simple (few vowels), complex (many vowels and timbres or few timbres with more phonation types), systems without high back vowels.

Caucasus (Adyge), Nasa Yuwe, ǃxóõ, Karitiana, Mangbetu, Mandarin, French, Aymara.

 

2. Consonant systems: simple (few consonants, parallel with speech acquisition?), elaborate (additional articulatory dimensions).

Karitiana, Rotokas, Mangbetu, Fulfulde (acquisition), Mandarin, |Gui, ǃxóõ.

 

3. Stop consonants: comparison between VOT types; fortis/lenis; pre. and post. aspiration; double closures; affricates.

French, English, and Ruund (VOT), Korean (fortis), Kotiria hCh, Mangbetu, Lese, Mamvu kp, gb, qɓ, Barwe, Hendo pf, bv.

 

4. Nasals and nasalization phenomena: complex nasal consonants from Africa and South America.

Prenasalised in Rwanda, Ruund; NCN Karitiana, Kaingang, Guarani Nasal Harmony, Tupi languages, Mbugu voiceless nasals.

 

5. Trills: different types of trills; Tap/flaps: Types and differences between the two.

Mangbetu bilabial trills, R in French, syllabic r in Lendu, Slovak, Czech; Mangbetu labio-dental flaps, Kuikuro uvular tap, Retroflex consonants.

 

6. Fricatives: Differences according to the places of articulation and friction (sibiliants vs. non-sibiliants); whistled fricatives; lateral fricatives.

Mandarin and Namtrik retroflex fricatives, syllabic z and s in Lendu, whistled ʃ in Kamsa, lateral in Zulu and Iraqw, laryngals in Kuikuro.

 

7. Clicks: Types of clicks, phonetic characteristics and accompaniments.

Clicks and accompaniments in |Gui, ǃxóõ, Hadza, Sandawe.

 

8. Glottalized consonants: voiceless and voiced implosives; types of ejectives, short and long ejectives.

Voiceless and voiced implosives: Lendu, Mangbetu, Fulfulde, Maya Quiche, ejectives in Amaharic, Aymara and Iraqw.

 

9. Approximants and laterals; glottalization; secondary articulations; syllabic consonants.

j, w, ɥ in French, j̰̰̰, w̰, l̰, Cj Nasa Yuwe, Russian, Gaelic, Cw, Cɣ Shona, Rwanda, syllabic consonants of Berber and Lendu

 

10. Stress (different types): phonetic characteristics.

 

11 & 12. Tones of African languages; Tones of Asian languages; Tones in the Mixtec languages.

 

Basic references : 

  • Catford, J.C. (1977). Mountain of Tongues: the Languages of the Caucasus. Annual review of Anthropology, vol 6. 283-314.
  • Demolin, D. (2015). Experimental phonetics and phonology in African languages. In L.J. Boë & C.-E. Vilain (eds.) Un siècle de phonétique expérimentale. Lyon, ENS Editions.211-242.
  • Maddieson, I (1984). Patterns of Sounds. Cambridge, Cambridge University press. 
  • Ladefoged, P. et Maddieson, I (1996). The sounds of the world’s languages. Oxford, Blackwell.
  • Storto, L. & Demolin, D. (2012). The phonetics and phonology of South American languages. In L. Campbell & V. Grondona (Eds.) The Indigenous Languages of South America. A comprehensive Guide. De Gruyter Mouton. Berlin/Boston. 331-390.
  • Zendejas, E.-H. 2014. Mapa fónico de las lenguas mexicanas: formas sonoras. Mexico. El Colegio de México.

 

Sites web : WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures) ; IPA ; 

 

 

 

5. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS (BACHELOR 3): 12 WEEKS

 

This course is an introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. The general principles are exposed and discussed with concrete examples. Particular emphasis is placed on the study of sound change and its role in the comparative method. In this perspective, the hypothesis of the regularity of sound change proposed by the XIXth century neogrammarians and its resolution will be studied. Language classification methods are discussed through different examples taken from Indo-European, American, African and Austronesian languages. The contribution of genetics to the classification of languages is approached from recent data to discuss the Bantu expansion and the peopling of the American continent.

 

  1. Darwin and the neogrammarians
  2. Sound change: phonetic laws
  3. Explanation of the source of sound change
  4. The regularity hypothesis and its resolution
  5. The comparative method
  6. Analogy and change in word structure
  7. Syntactic changes
  8. Changes in the lexicon
  9. Indo-European languages
  10. Languages of Africa
  11. Contribution of genetics: classification of languages, gene and language trees
  12. Population of the American continent

 

Basic references:

  • Campbell, L. (1998). Historical linguistics: An Introduction. MIT Press;
  • Cavalli-Sforza, L. (1996). Genes, peoples and languages. Works of the College de France. Paris. Odille Jacob;
  • Hock, H.H. (1991). Principles of Historical Linguistics. Guyter's sheep;
  • Joseph, B.D. (2008). The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford. Blackwell. References.
  • (Articles or books in French and English will be added as the course progresses).

6. LABORATORY PHONOLOGY (BETWEEN THE PHYSICS OF SPEECH AND GRAMMAR): 12 WEEKS

 

The objective of this course is to assess how phonological theory is shaped by empirical data. It begins by briefly describing what is meant by laboratory work, outlining the theoretical framework adopted, which follows the lines of the emergent phonology hypothesis proposed by Lindblom (1986, 1990). Phonological issues related to aerodynamic principles relating the shape of the vocal tract to acoustic output, as well as auditory representation and cognition are addressed in different languages. Aspects of Kingston and Diehl's (1994) control theory are also covered in this course.

 

Basic references:

  • Demolin, D. (2002). The search for primitives in phonology and the explanation of sound patterns: the contribution of fieldwork studies. In C. Gussenhoven and N. Warner (eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology 7. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 355-434.
  • Kingston, J., & Diehl, R. (1994). Phonetic knowledge. Language, 70, 419-454.
  • Lindblom, B. (1986). Phonetic universals in vowel systems. In J.J. Ohala, & J.J. Jaeger (Eds.), Experimental phonology. 13–44. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
  • Lindblom, B. (1990). On the notion of "possible speech sound". Journal of Phonetics.18, 135-152.
  • Turk, A. & Shattuck-Huffnagel, S. 2020. Speech Timing: implications for theories of phonology, phonetics, and speech motor control. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

 

7. EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE AND SPEECH: 12 WEEKS

 

Many theories have been advanced to deal with the origin and evolution of language. The question of origin is speculative in all sciences whether for the origin of life, of the earth or of the universe, but in any case it is an important subject. Research on the origin and evolution of language tries to gather as much information as possible from genetic data, child development, neuroscience, paleontology, anthropology, comparative psychology, linguistic typology, historical linguistics and computer modelling, to construct as coherent a view as possible of human language and its origin. The term language designates the communication system of the human species, one of the medium of which is speech and the other manual gestures. All communication systems, and this of course includes human language, are the product of an evolution that has continued to this day. In terms of evolution, there is no abrupt discontinuity in principle between human language and animal communication. The aspects of this continuity must obviously be proven and this can only come from a comparative approach of communication between species. A body of evidence can be advanced to account for the evolution of the linguistic capacities of modern man: the evolution of the anatomy of the phonatory apparatus, the diachrony of languages, the evolution of the size of the brain and the genetic basis of language. The foundations of a serious discussion on this subject can already be found in Charles Darwin’s book 'The origin of species' (1859) where he asserted that the best possible classification of languages is to make a sort of genealogical tree of them which goes back in time by indicating the parenthood and origin of the languages that are spoken. Darwin continues and deepen this discussion of the origin of languages in his book: ‘The Descent of Man and Sexual Selection’ (1871) with particular emphasis on the gradual development of language. For Darwin, the very complex and very regular construction of languages suggests that their origin is not due to a special act of creation, they are a product of evolution. The Darwinian approach also raises some important questions. First, the question of function. How to assess language systems in terms of effects for survival and reproduction? What are they doing for the survival of the species? It is important to distinguish between evolutionary adaptation, a genetic characteristic that increases the ability of an organism in its relationship to a given environment, from physiological adaptation or acclimatization, which accounts for temporary changes in the environment of an organism. The biological approach adopted to answer questions related to the origins of language is identical to that of Tinbergen (1952) to explain animal communication systems in ethology. This perspective provides the only comprehensive explanatory approach to communication in the animal kingdom, including human language. Applying these principles to human language, four points emerge: (1) the question of function (2) the question of mechanism: how does a language work? That is, to understand the neurological, physiological and psychological mechanisms that underlie linguistic systems (3) The question of origin from an ontogenetic point of view: determining the genetic and environmental factors that guide the development of linguistic systems and (4) The question of origin from the phylogenetic point of view: how did the system come to be what it is in terms of phylogenesis?

 

Basic references:

 

  • Darwin, Charles. (1859). The Origin of Species. London. Murray.
  • Darwin, Charles. (1871). The descend of Man. London. Murray.
  • Deacon, T. 1997. The symbolic species. The co-evolution of language and the brain. New-York, Norton.
  • Fitch, T.W. 2010. The evolution of language. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Hurford, J. R. 2008. The origins of semantics. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 
  • Hurford, J. R. 2012. The origins of grammar. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 
  • MacNeilage, P. 2008. The origin of speech. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 
  • Tinbergen, N. 1952. "Derived" Activities; Their Causation, Biological Significance, Origin, and Emancipation During Evolution. The Quarterly Review of Biology, Volume 27, 1.

 

8. MUSICAL ACOUSTICS (INTRODUCTORY COURSE): 6 WEEKS

 

The topics covered in this course are: the physics of sound and hearing, notes and harmony. Acoustics of string and wind instruments. Acoustics of percussion instruments and voice. Questions about hearing and timbre. Room acoustics.

Acoustics of some traditional musical instruments (Sanza, bullroarer, Indian flutes and clarinets).

 

  • Johnston, I. (2009). Measured tones: the interplay of physics and music. 3rd edition. CRC press, Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton.
  • Leipp, E. (1989). Acoustics and music. Paris. Masson.
  • Mahillon, V.-C. (1984). Elements of musical and instrumental acoustics. Brussels. Music friends.

 

9. ETHNOMUSICOLOGY: 12 WEEKS

 

Introduction to ethnomusicology and formal methods of musical analysis of oral tradition music from Central Africa and South America. The themes are the vocal and instrumental polyphonies of traditional music from these regions as well as the highlighting of the musical scales and timbre properties of certain musical instruments.

 

  • Arom, S. (2007). La boîte à outils d’un ethnomusicologue. University of Montreal Press.
  • Arom, S. & Alvarez-Péreyre, F. (2007). Précis d’ethnomusicologie. CNRS Editions. Paris.
  • Arom, S. & Martin, D.-C. (2015). L’enquête en ethnomusicologie : préparation, terrain, analyse. Paris, Vrin.

 

Musical instruments of the Congo: Systematics, acoustics and craftsmanship of traditional (Course given at the Museum of Mankind in Paris)

 

  • Knosp Questionnaire, (1968). Enquête sur la vie musicale au Congo belge. (1937-1938). Royal Museum for Central Africa. Tervuren. (3 volumes)
  • Tracey, H. The Sound of Africa series. Vol1 & Vol 2. International Library of African music. Roodepoort.
  • Laurenty, J.S. (1960, 1962, 1968, 1974). Chordophones, Sanza, Slit Drums, Aerophones. Royal Museum for Central Africa. Tervuren.
  • Laurenty, J.S. (1990, 1995a, 1995b, 1996, 1997). Organologie du Zaire (I to IV). Royal Museum for Central Africa. Tervuren.
  • Gansemans (2008) RMCA collections: Musical instruments. Royal Museum for Central Africa. Tervuren.
  • Gansemans, J. & Schmidt-Wrenger, B. (1986). Muziekgeschichte im bildern. VEB, Leipzig.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMARY PRESENTATION OF TEACHING 

Current

 

Experimental phonetics: M1 and M2 Master in Language Sciences, UFR, LLD, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, Face-to-face course, 12 weeks, 24 hours. 

 

Physiological and acoustical phonetics: M1 and M2 Master in Language Sciences, UFR, LLD, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, 12 weeks, 24 hours. 

 

General phonetics (Acoustic): L2 of the license in language sciences, UFR, LLD, Paris Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 3, 12 weeks, 24 hours. 

 

Comparative phonetics of the world’s languages: L3 in Language Sciences, UFR, LLD, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, 12 weeks, 24 hours. 

 

Historical and comparative linguistics: L3 in Language Sciences, UFR, LLD, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, 12 weeks, 24 hours. 

 

Musical instruments from the Congo: systematics, acoustics and craftsmanship. master in anthropology. 

 

Taught since the beginning of my career

 

Laboratory phonology (between the physics of speech and grammar): course given at the University of Sao Paulo between 2003 and 2007 then as part of the Levi-Strauss chair at the University of Sao Paulo, 30h, doctoral program from the linguistics department.

 

Evolution of language and speech: course given as part of the Levi-Strauss chair at the universities of Sao Paulo and Campinas (2012 to 2014), 30h, doctoral program of the linguistics department.

 

Musical acoustics (introductory course): License in musicology from the Free University of Brussels 24 hours, 12 weeks, this course was also given to speech therapists at the University of Provence between 2015 and 2018 (6 hours course).

 

Ethnomusicology: License in musicology from the Free University 

of Brussels, 12 weeks, 24 hours. Face-to-face lessons. 20 students on average.

 

Language contact: L2 of the license in language sciences, UFR, LLD, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, (2014 to 2017), face-to-face course, 12 weeks, 24 hours. TD.

 

World languages: L1 at Stendhal Grenoble 3 University (University of the Alps). This course was also given in extension courses at the University of Valence, (2010 to 2014), 24 hours, 12 weeks.

 

Introduction to linguistics: CNAM Paris, training for audio-prosthesis, 6 weeks, 12 hours (between 2014 and 2016).

 

General linguistics: L1 at the Free University of Brussels (until 2010) and L1 at Stendhal Grenoble 3 University (University of the Alps) (2010 to 2014), 30h.

 

Introduction to language sciences: 30h master's degree in speech therapy, common course at the Free University of Brussels and the Catholic University of Louvain (between 2007 and 2010).

 

Description and comparison of unwritten languages: 30h, L3 in linguistics at the Free University of Brussels (between 2005 and 2010), this course was also given at the University of Sao Paulo in 2005, in linguistics.

VISITING PROFESSOR

 

  • 2022: African Linguistic School, Porto Novo, Benin. Field phonetics
  • 2018: African Linguistic School, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Experimental phonetics and phonology.
  • 2016: Fryske Akademie, KNWA Holland; research project on glottalization, diphthongs, dialectal variation and nasalization in Frisian.
  • 2014: Universidade de Campinas, Lafape (Levi-Strauss chair) course on the origin and evolution of language and speech
  • 2012, 2013: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Levi-Strauss chair); courses on the origin and evolution of language and speech and laboratory phonology courses.
  • 2009: University of São Paulo, Brazil; laboratory phonology course.
  • 2009: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; courses in laboratory phonology and musical acoustics.
  • 2008: University of São Paulo, Brazil; laboratory phonology course.
  • 2007: Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil; laboratory phonology course.
  • 2007: Associação Brasileira de Lingüística, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; methods of experimental phonetics.
  • 2003-2007: University of São Paulo, Brazil; experimental phonetics methods, laboratory phonology courses, acoustic phonetics, field linguistics.
  • 2003 and 2005: Pontifical Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil; laboratory phonology course.
  • 2002: University of Lubumsbashi, Congo; general linguistics and experimental phonetics.
  • 2000: University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; methods of experimental phonetics.
  • 1999: Universidade Federal do Minas Geiras, Brazil, articulatory phonology and experimental phonetic methods.

RESEARCH

 

I. Research topics

 

1. Development of experimental methods in phonetics.

 

The objective is the treatment and the study of phenomena which do not yet have a satisfactory description such as the control and regulation of subglottal pressure, the relationship between subglottal pressure and fundamental frequency (f0) and the reasons for the declination about which we still cannot say whether it is controlled or automatic. This theme includes a project on breathing and its control in speech. This involves the development of a new methods and the use of new 3D accelerometers that allow non-invasive measurements of the muscles’ activity involved in respiratory control. Making an aerodynamic database allowing to study all the speech parameters synchronized with the acoustic signal and to perform digital simulations. I also develop research aimed at integrating aspects of the neurological control of the nerves involved in speech phenomena.

On this aspect of my work, I also contributed to restoring old devices, including a portable kymograph from the beginning of the 20th century.

 

Main results:  
  • MRI: 1st studies in 1992 to study the vowels [±ATR] of Mangbetu (Demolin 1992); multi-cuts in French, 3D and real time.(Collaborations with Christophe Segebarth & Thierry Metens).
  • Aerodynamics: database on 10 French, English and American subjects with synchronized Ps, Po, Dab, Dan and acoustics(Collaboration with Sergio Hassid)
  • Declination of the f0. Control of breathing in speech by investigation of the inspiratory, scalene & diaphragm and expiratory, rectus abdominis & external intercostal muscles. How is the relative constancy of Ps achieved despite continually changing relaxation forces? Effects of Parkinson's disease on declination, acoustic and aerodynamic aspects.(Collaboration with Alice Turk & D. K. Arvind, Ryan Shosted, Lise Crevier Buchman, Yves Laprie, Jean-Paul Marie and François Viallet)
  • Respiratory muscle activity with 3D accelerometers. (collaboration with Guy Cheron and Anita Cebolla).
  • Compensation phenomena in speech to study the modification of the valves involved in the production of phonatory types.(Collaboration Lise Crevier Buchman, Tulio Rojas)
  • Effects of laryngeal re-innervation on speech (Collaboration Jean Paul Marie and Lise Crevier Buchman)
  • Restoration of a kymograph(Collaboration Alain Ghio and Antonio Serrato).

 

Main collaborations : Thierry Metens (ULB Erasme), Alain Ghio (LPL Aix), Sergio Hassid (ULB Erasme), Alice Turk & D.K.Arvind (Edinburgh), Ryan Shosted (Illinois), Lise Crevier Buchman (LPP Paris 3), Jean-Paul Marie (CHU Rouen), Eleonora Albano (Unicamp), John Kingston (Amherst), Guy Cheron (ULB Erasme), Anita Cebola (ULB Erasme).

 

2. Development of the quantal theory in phonetics and phonology. 

 

The extension of this theory, which integrates the production and perception of speech, is made by highlighting the relationships between certain aerodynamic parameters and their acoustic consequences on the production of sounds. I also develop aspects of the quantal theory to explain phonetic changes that are seen as changes of state. New developments in quantal theory: Thresholds in aerodynamic parameters and their consequences on the acoustic output and state changes: s̃ >  θ , x̃ > h in Guarani, bilabial trills, frication, voicing threshold.  Change from alveolar r to uvular R as a quantal change.  Quantal states: discrete information is extracted from the continuous stream of articulatory movements and pressure/flow modulations. Speakers/listeners are sensitive to pressure and flow thresholds and their acoustic consequences. State changes to explain some phonetic changes (! >k, s>h). Development of formalism based on Boolean logic and asynchronous automata for the study of speech (René Thomas).

 

Main collaborations : Rosario Signorello (Apple), Ryan Shosted (Illinois), Bryan Gick (Vancouver), Hans Van de Velde (Fryske Akademy Leeuwarden), John Kingston (Amherst)

3. Description of new phenomena in the phonetic and phonological systems of the languages of the world
.   The objective is to observe, describe, measure, quantify, process, compare and explain phonetic and phonological phenomena observed in the languages of the world. Concretely, fieldwork on African and South American languages with the aim of observing and measuring new phenomena with different techniques, to integrate them into models of sound production in the sound systems of human languages. In addition to South American and African languages, this part of the work has recently been extended to European and Asian languages. How to characterize the difference between laboratory speech and spontaneous speech? Evaluate the notion of what is a possible (speech) sound in human communication systems.
Main results and phenomena studied:  
  • Phonetics/phonology of Central Sudanic languages, Mangbetu, Efe, Lendu: ATR, implosives, labio-dental flaps, double consonants, tonal schemes, voiceless implosives, voiceless syllables.
  • Phonetics/phonology of Karitiana (Tupi) complex nasals, vowel systems, labial feature.
  • Ejective consonants, ejective fricatives and MacGurk effect in Amaric.
  • Nasal harmony, voiceless nasal fricatives in Guarani (Tupi-Guarani).
  • Description of a uvular tap in Kuikuro and Kalapalo (Carib).
  • Glottalisation and laryngalisation in Nasa Yuwe, Wanano, Yudja, Karitiana.
  • Diphthongs in Mangbetu, Frisian and Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Phonation types in Nasa Yuwe and Nuer.
  • Lateral and ejective consonants in Iraqw.
  • Epiphenomenal clicks in Rwanda.
  • Sandawe and Hadza clicks.
  • VOT in Ruund.
  • Gemination in Tetela.
  • Retroflexes in Namtrik.
  • Fricatives whistled in Kamsa.
  • Rothics in French, Portuguese and Dutch.
  • Tonal systems: Efe, Mangbetu, Mamvu, Tai Dam.
  • Whistled and drummed languages: Ari, Efe, Mangbetu, Luba, Chinantec.

 

Collaborations with Hans Van de Velde (Fryske Akademy), Alain Ghio & Yohann Ménadier (LPL Aix), Kris Stenzel (Rio de Janeiro), Moges Yigezu, (Addis Ababa), Tulio Rojas (Popayan), Esther Zendejas (Colegio Mexico), Maarten Mous (Leiden), Shigeki Kaji (Tokyo), John Kingston, Luciana Storto (Sao Paulo)

4. Dynamics of phonological systems.
  Phonological systems can be described using models derived from population ecology where the logistic equation in its different forms (discrete or continuous) is fundamental. In this prespective variation is considered as the norm and not an accidental fact. Therefore, phonological systems are understood as the sound systems of languages spoken by populations of individuals who all carry small variations. Phonological systems are self-organized and generate emergent structures. Sound change accounts for the dynamics of systems. The contribution of animal communication models and in particular those of intelligence and collective patterns (ants, termites) is the input of this the perspective to study phonological systems. The contribution of the dialectology of certain birds and whale societies is compared to the principles of the dialectology of languages. The source, triggering and propagation of sound change are studied through dialect variation. This raises the question of the nature of systems: open or closed? (universal features?); What are the limitations of systems > APIs? What constraints on the form of production and perception systems? Anatomical? Ecological? Consider the phonological systems of language families as basins of attraction. Phonological systems are complex systems but how to evaluate it? A complex system cannot be reduced to the study of its components. Phonology is not separate from the grammar of a language.  

Collaborations with Hans Van de Velde (Fryske Akademy), Jane Stuart Smith (Glasgow), André Motingea (Kinshasa), Jean-Louis Deneubourg (ULB), François Pellegrino et Dan Dediu (Lyon)

 

5. Evolution of speech and language.
  This part of my research is devoted to the study of the evolution of speech and language in a Darwinian perspective. I seek to highlight the origin and evolution of the sound systems of human languages by comparing them with the communication systems of non-human primates. The general principles of communication with other species, especially birds and cetaceans, are also studied to understand the principles on which, for example, dialectology is based in other communication systems. The main questions are: the evolution of the vocal source; the emergence of vowels in the vocalizations of non-human primates; the anatomical, physiological and acoustic constraints that explain the emergence of consonants and finally how prosody was structured in the communication of primates. The work that I am carrying out in Brazil on the muriqui has made it possible to show that there is a form of elementary grammar and an open system in the communication of this species and which makes it possible to ask some fundamental questions about the origin and evolution of the speech. The evolution of speech from a Darwinian perspective helps to understand the evolution of the source and its control (comparisons with gibbons, horses, certain macaques, muriqui, bonobos and chimpanzees). Evolution of the shape of the vocal tract and its innervation. Origin of vowels form and function of the acoustic filter; consonants by understanding biomechanical and aerodynamic constraints; prosody and f0 control. Emergence of grammatical structure in the communication of certain species: muriqui, whales.

 

Collaborations with Jean-Louis Deneubourg (ULB), Sergio Hassid (ULB Ersame), Thierry Aubin (Orsay), François Pellegrino (Lyon), Alaba Lemasson & Martine Hausberger (Rennes), Philippe Schlenker (ENS), Francisco Mendes (Brazilia)

 

6. Ethnomusicology.
  The ethnomusicological and musical acoustic part of my activities is devoted to the description of musical systems or specific repertoires of Central Africa and South America. The themes are the vocal and instrumental polyphonies of traditional music from these regions as well as the highlighting of the musical scales and timbre properties of certain musical instruments.   Main results :
 
  • Description of the Mangbetu musical system: instrumental polyrhythm and polyphony
  • Vocal and instrumental polyphonies of the Asua and Efe Pygmies
  • Origin of polyphony in Central Africa
  • Acoustics of traditional musical instruments (Efe, !xóõ, Kuikuro)
  • Study of musical scales (Efe, Mangbele, Kuikuro)
  • Systematics of the musical instruments of the Congo
  • Digitization of wax rolls of Congo music
  Collaborations with Simha Arom, Suzanne Fürniss & Sylvie le Bomin (Museum of Man), Quai Branly (Permanent exhibition), MIM Phoenix (Permanent exhibition), MRAC Tervuren (Digitalization of wax rolls) II. Research contracts evaluated following a call for projects  
  • Experimental research (acoustic, articulatory and aerodynamic) on glottalized consonants, project funded by the FNRS;
  • Use of magnetic resonance imaging in phonetics, project funded by the FNRS;
  • Phonetic knowledge and articulatory control, project funded by the FNRS; Phonetic and phonological universals, project funded by the FNRS;
  • Dynamics of phonological systems: a multidisciplinary approach to sound systems, ARC project;
  • Orofacial control in human and non-human primates, European Science Foundation project;
  • Evolution of languages, language and speech, National Bank of Belgium project;
  • Language and Music of the Pygmies of Ituri, Harvard project;
  • Language and Music of the Mangbetu, American Museum of Natural History project; Language and Music of the Mangbetu, Mini-Arc ULB; 
  • Research on the effects of Parkinson's disease on speech, Provence Côte d'Azur region project;
  • Participation in the Petrobras project on the music of the Kuikuro, Museo National de Rio de Janeiro;
  • Vocal communication among the Muriquis, CAPES project;
  • Description of the Kaiabi language, Museo do indio project (Rio-de-Janeiro) and UNESCO coordinated by Suzi Lima;
  • Complexity of phonetic and phonological systems, Labex EFL;
  • Restoration of a portable Kymograph, Labex EFL;
  • Sorbonne Paris city project and University of Sao Paulo, experimental phonetics;
  • ANR ArtSpeech 2015-2018. (Loria, Nancy, LPP Paris3, Gipsa-lab Grenoble);
  • Axis 1 of the EFL labex, (Operation PPC11): Complexity and diffusion of phonological systems;
  • Axis 6 of the EFL labex: Database for the comparison between human language and animal communication;
  • Project on Frisian: The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Frysk Akademy. 2016-2017
  • Axis 1 of the EFL labex: Operation Labfield
  • ANR Full3DTalkinghead 2020-2023. (Loria, Nancy, LPP Paris3, Legi Grenoble)
  • Sysori Project, Rift Valley Sound Systems, CNRS (LPP Paris3, LPL AMU & U of Dar-es-Salaam)

 

III. Main fieldwork campaigns

 

  • 1984. Ituri, Congo : Ndo, Hema, Nyali, Bira ; ethnomusicology (Radio-France)
  • 1984. Uele, Congo, Ouganda : Mangbetu, Zande, Madi, Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (Fondation belge de la vocation)
  • 1985. Uele, Congo : Mangbetu ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (Fondation belge de la vocation)
  • 1986. Lamu, Kenya ; ethnomusicology (Université d’Anvers)
  • 1986. Uele, Congo : Mangbetu et Malele; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (FNRS et CEPC Musée de Tervuren)
  • 1986. Ituri, Congo : Pygmées Asua; ethnomusicology (FNRS et CEPC Musée de Tervuren)
  • 1987. Nyanza, Kenya : Luo, Gussi et Kuria ; ethnomusicology (Radio-France)
  • 1987. Ituri, Congo : Pygmées Efe; Linguistics/phonetics, ehtnomusicology (Université d’Harvard)
  • 1988. Uele, Congo : Mangbetu ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (Musée américain d’histoire naturelle)
  • 1988. Kivu. Congo. Shi, Havu. Ethnomusicology (CEPC Musée de Tervuren)
  • 1989. Uele, Congo : Mangbetu ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (Musée américain d’histoire naturelle)
  • 1990. Uele, Congo : Mangbetu ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (Musée américain d’histoire naturelle)
  • 1996. !xõo , Botswana ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (Laboratoire DDL de Lyon 2)
  • 2000. Vallée de l’Omo, Ethiopie ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (Projet ARC Université libre de Bruxelles)
  • 2002. Karitiana, Brésil ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (CNPq Brésil)
  • 2002. Région de Franceville, Gabon ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (Laboratoire DDL de Lyon 2)
  • 2002. Porto Velho, Brésil, Kartitiana ; Linguistics/phonetics, ethnomusicology (CNPq Brésil)
  • 2003. Région du Rio Guaporé ; Brésil ; Linguistics/phonetics (ELDP SOAS Londres)
  • 2004. Région du Rio Guaporé ; Brésil ; Linguistics/phonetics (ELDP SOAS Londres)
  • 2006. Haut Xingú,  Kuikuro, Brésil ; Linguistics/phonetics, etnomusicology (Museo do Indio de Rio de Janeiro et Petrobras)
  • 2009. Guarani, Kuikuro et Karitiana, Brésil ; Linguistics/phonetics, (Université de Sao Paulo)
  • 2010. Guarani, Kuikuro et Karitiana, Brésil ; Linguistics/phonetics, (Université de Sao Paulo)
  • 2012.  Karitiana,   Pirahã,  Brésil ; Linguistics/phonetics, (Université de Sao Paulo)
  • 2012. Nasa Yuwe et Namtrik, Colombie ; Linguistics/phonetics, (Ecos nord Grenoble Colombie)
  • 2013. Nasa Yuwe, Kamsa et Namtrik, Colombie ; Linguistics/phonetics, (Ecos nord Grenoble Colombie)
  • 2014. Dâw, Brésil ; Linguistics/phonetics, (Université de Sao Paulo et Fapesp)
  • 2017. Frison, Hollande ; Linguistics/phonetics, KNAW (Hollande)
  • 2019. Hadza, Iraqw et Datooga, Tanzanie, (Labex EFL et LLP)
  • 2022. Maasai, Tanzanie, (CNRS projet Sysori)

 

IV. Organisation of conferences and workshops

 

  • 1993 : Sound Change (Université Libre de Bruxelles) ;
  • 1997 : Larynx 1997 (Marseille), (with Bernard Teston et Antoine Giovani) ;
  • 1998 : Workshop on subglottal pressure (Université Libre de Bruxelles) ;
  • 1999 : Satellite meeting of the International Congress of Phonetics Sciences : Origin and evolution of speech (San Fransisco), (with J-M Hombert) ; 
  • 2002 : Workshop on the production of /r/ sounds (with Hans Van de Velde and Roeland Van Houdt) ; 
  • 2003 : Symposium on the phonetics of indigenous languages, International Congress of Phonetics Sciences , Barcelona ; 
  • 2006 : International Seminar of Speech Production (ISSP), Ubatuba, Brésil, (Avec Hani Yehia et Raphael Laboissière) ; 
  • 2008 : Participation to the special Wocal in São Paulo. ; 
  • 2010 : Journées d’études sur la parole, Mons, Belgium ;
  • 2010 : SPSASSD (Sao Paulo School for advanced studies in speech dynamics), (with Eleonora Albano) ; 
  • 2013 International workshop ‘Human dialects and animal communication’, Grenoble, Gipsa-lab, Université Stendhal ; 
  • 2013 : International workshop ‘R-atics4’, Gipsa-lab, Bernin ; 
  • 2014 : Dinaphon 1, Université de Campinas ; 
  • 2015. Workshop ‘Phonation Types’, 2016. Workshop articulatory control, LPP Paris, Labex EFL;  
  • 2016. International Workshop: Structural Complexity in Natural Language(s) 1 (SCNL), LPP Paris, Labex EFL ;
  • 2017. International Workshop: Structural Complexity in Natural Language(s) 2 (SCNL), LPP Paris, Labex EFL ;
  • 2018. Human language and animal communication systems (ED 268 Paris 3) ;
  • 2019. International workshop Embodied speech (LPP Paris 3).
  • 2019. ‘R-atics6’ (LPP Paris 3).
  • 2021. Workshop in honor of John Ohala (LPP Paris 3, U du Massachussets)
PUBLICATIONS  
  1. PHONETICS/LINGUISTICS
 
  1. Books
 
  • Demolin, D. (Ed.) (1997). Les changements Phonétiques. Revue de Phonétique Appliquée. Mons : Université de Mons. 123 p.
 
  • Dominicy, M. and Demolin, D. (Eds.) (1995). Sound Change. Belgian Journal of Linguistic, John Benjamins. Amsterdam. 184 p.
 
  • Demolin, D. and Hombert, J.-M. (Eds.) (1999). The Origin and Evolution of Speech. Evolution of Communication. Special Issue 145p.
 
  • Yehia, H. C., Demolin, D. and Laboissière, R. (Eds.) (2006). Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on Speech Production. Belo Horizonte: CEFALA. 588 p.
 
  • Demolin, D. Le mangbetu: Étude phonétique et phonologique. Accepté pour publication : Rüdiger Koeppe Verlag. Köln.
 
  • Karitiana Phonetics and phonology. Demolin, D. and Storto, L. To appear.
 
  • Eleonora Albano & Didier Demolin (2021) Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology. Special issue of  Journal of Potuguese Linguistics.
 
  • Editorial board of the Handbook of Sociophonetics, Christopher Streluff (Ed.).
     
  1. Referenced book chapters
 
  • Demolin, D. 1985. Some aspects of Madi phonology and morphology, in Language and History in Central Africa, D.L.Goyvaerts (éd.), UIA.
 
  • Demolin, D. (1995). The phonetics and phonology of glottalized consonants in Lendu. In Papers in Laboratory Phonology 4. Cambridge University Press. 368-385.
 
  • Demolin, D. (1999). Tone in Central Sudanic Languages. S. Kaji (ed.) Crosslinguistic studies of tonal phenomena. ICLAA. Tokyo. 313-336.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2002). The search for primitives in phonology and the explanation of sound patterns: the contribution of fieldwork studies. In C. Gussenhoven and N. Warner (eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology 7. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 355-434.
 
  • Storto, L and Demolin, D. (2005). Pitch accent in Karitiana. In: Shigeki Kaji. (Org.). Cross-linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena: Historical Development, Tone-syntax interface, and Descriptive Studies. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies. 329-355. 2005.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2005). Comments on Tonal expressions of aspect in Kuman, a western Nilotic language in Uganda: a historical consideration by Osamu Hieda . In: Shigeki Kaji. (Org.). Cross-linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena: Historical Development, Tone-syntax interface, and Descriptive Studies. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies. 123-125.
 
  • Demolin, D. and Delvaux, V. (2006). A comparison of the articulatory parameters involved in the production of sound in bonobo and modern humans. In: Angelo Cangelosi; Andrew D. Smith and Kenny Smith. (Org.). The evolution of language. London: World Scientific. 67-74.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2007). Phonological Universals and the control and regulation of speech production. In: Solé, M-J., Ohala, M. & Beddor, P. (Eds.) Experimental approaches to phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 75-92.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2008). The Frame/content Theory and the emergence of consonants. In: Zjado, K. & Davis, B. (Eds.) The syllable in Speech Production. Oxford: Laurence Earlbaum. 93-110.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2008). Rousselot and the experimental method in linguistics. In Kissine et al. Linguista Sum. Paris L’Harmattan. 337-348.
 
  • Storto, L. & Demolin, D. (2008). The rhythm class hypothesis and indigenous languages. In L. Bisol & C. Berscancini (eds.) Contemporary Phonology in Brazil. Cambridge University Press. 275-288.
 
  • Demolin, D. & Metens, T. (2009). L’imagerie par resonance magnétique en temps réel pour l’étude de la parole. In A. Marchal & C. Cavé (eds.). Techniques d’imagerie médicale pour l’étude de la parole. Hermès. 257-271.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2010). Experimental Phonetics in Sub-Saharan languages. In: Boë, L-J., Cathiard, M-A. & Schwartz, J-L. (Eds.) De Théodore Rousset à John Ohala: 100 ans de phonétique expérimentale. Lyon: Ecole Normale Supérieure. 211-242.
 
  • Demolin, D., Ades, C. & Mendes, F. D. (2010). Prosodic features in Muriqui vocalizations. The evolution of language. London: World Scientific. 91-98.
 
  • Storto, L. & Demolin, D. (2012). The phonetics and phonology of South American languages. In L. Campbell & V. Grondona (Eds.) The Indigenous Languages of South America. A comprehensive Guide. De Gruyter Mouton. Berlin/Boston. 331-390.
 
  • Stenzel, K. & Demolin, D. (2012). Traços Laringais em Kotiria e Wa'ikhana (Tukano Oriental).  In Gisela Collischonn e Leda Bisol (orgs.) Fonologia: Teoria e Perspectivas-Anais do IV Seminario Internacional de Fonologia. Porto Alegre, PURS. 22-42.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2015). Insights from the field. In M. Redford (ed.). Handbook of speech production. Oxford. Wiley Blackwell. 477-504.
 
  • Demolin, D. & Storto, L. (2016). Temporal coordination of glottalic gestures in Karitiana. In H. Avelino, M. Coler & L. Wetzels (eds.). The phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features in Native American Languages. Brill, Leiden. 193-206.
 
  • Demolin, D., Hombert, J.-M., G. Sicard & A. Traill. (2016). Odor terminology in !xóõ. In R. Vössen (ed.). Khoisan studies. Rüdiger Koeppe Verlag. Köln. 107-118.
 
  • Demolin, D. (A paraître). Experimental phonetics and phonology in African languages. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Research in Linguistics.
 
  • Demolin, D. & Patin, C. (A paraître). The phonetics of Bantu languages. Nancy Kula (Ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Bantu languages. Oxford University Press.
       
  1. Referenced papers and proceedings
 
  • Demolin, D. (1988). Some Problems of Phonological Reconstruction in Central Sudanic.  Belgian Journal of Linguistics 3, 53-96.
 
  • Demolin, D. (1989). Production et perception des voyelles en mangbetu. Pholia 4, 45-69.
 
  • Demolin, D. (1990). Les trilles bilabiales du mangbetu. Pholia 5, 67-90.
 
  • Demolin, D. (1991). L’analyse des segments de la syllabe et des tons dans un jeu de langage mangbetu. Langages 101, 30-50.
 
  • Demolin, D. (1991). Les consonnes labio-vélaires du mangbetu. Pholia
 
  • Demolin, D., J.-M. Hombert, P. Ondo & C. Segebarth (1992). Les voyelles du fang ntumu d’Aboumezok. Pholia
 
  • Demolin, D. and Segebarth, C. (1992). Analyse de la production des voyelles de quelques langues soudan central par IRM. In: XIXèmes Journées d'etudes sur la parole. 1992, Bruxelles. 82-85.
 
  • Demolin, D., Hombert, J-M., Lecuit, V. and Segebarth, C. (1995). An MRI study of French vowels. In: Eurospeech.  Procedings of Eurospeech. 2236-2339.
 
  • Demolin, D. and Teston, B. (1996). Labio-Dental Flaps in Mangbetu. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 103-112.
 
  • Demolin, D., Lecuit, V., Metens, T. and Soquet, A. (1996). From sagittal cut to area functions : a MRI study. In: 4th ICSLP, 1996, Philadelphia. Proceedings of the 4th ICSLP. 1205-1209.
 
  • Demolin, D., Metens, T. Soquet, A. (1996). Three dimensional measurement of the vocal tract by MRI. In: 4th ICSLP, 1996, Philadelphia. Proceedings of the 4th ICSLP. 1205-1209.
 
  • Demolin, D., George, M., Lecuit, V., Metens, T. and Soquet, A. (1996). Détermination, par IRM, de l'ouverture du Velum des voyelles nasales du français. In: XXIèmes journées d'études sur la Parole.  83-87.
 
  • Bulkens, A. and Demolin, D. (1996). Caractéristiques phonétiques du système vocalique du Bobo-Fing. In: XXIèmes Journées d'études sur la Parole. Avignon. 115-119.
 
  • Demolin, D. and Teston, B. (1996). Aspects articulatoires et aérodynamiques des occlusives labio-vélaires . In: XXIèmes journées d'études sur la parole. Avignon. 111-114.
 
  • Bouka , L. & Demolin, D. (1997). Quelques changements phonétiques en Bekwel. Revue de Phonétique Appliquée. 3-20.
 
  • Demolin, D. and Teston, B. (1997). Phonetic characteristics of double articulations in some Mangbutu/efe languages. In: Eurospeech, 1997. 803-807.
 
  • Demolin, D., George, M.,  Lecuit, V., Metens, T. and Soquet, A. (1997). Coarticulation and articulatory compensations studied by dynamic MRI. In: Eurospeech, 1997. 43-47.
 
  • Demolin, D. & R. Thomas (1998). Les relations logiques entre les primitifs de la description des voyelles. In P. Decroupet et F. Nicolas (éds.). Revue Belge de Musicologie 197-205.
 
  • Demolin, D. (1998). Dynamique des systèmes phonologiques: aspects formels et expérimentaux. In: XXIIèmes journées d'études sur la Parole. 53-70.
 
  • Lecuit, V. and Demolin, D. (1998). Relation entre pression sous-glottique et intensité des voyelles en français . In: XXIIèmes journées d'études sur la Parole. Martigny. 299-302.
 
  • Lecuit, V. and Demolin, D. (1998). The relationship between intensity and subglottal pressure with controlled pitch. In: Proceedings ICSLP. Sydney. 3079-3082.
 
  • Lecuit, V., Demolin, D. Metens, T., Nazarian, B. and  Soquet, A. (1998). Magnetic resonance of the velum port opening. In: Proceedings ICSLP. 1998. p. 425-429.
 
  • Soquet, A., Lecuit, V.,  Nazarian, B., Metens, T. and Demolin, D. (1998).  Segmentation of the airway from the surrounding tissues on Magnetic Resonance images: a comparative study. In: Proceedings ICSLP. Sydney. 3083-3086.
 
  • Demolin D. and Soquet A. (1999). Double articulations in some Mangbutu-Efe languages. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 29, 2. 143-154.
 
  • Demolin, D. et A. Soquet. (1999). The Role of Self-Organization in the Emergence of Phonological Systems. Evolution of Communication, 3. 5-29.
 
  • Bettex, S. and Demolin, D. (1999). Sound symbolism in !xóo. In: Proceedings 14th ICPHS 1337-1340.
 
  • Metens, T., Soquet, A. and Demolin, D. (1999). Dynamic study of the vocal tract. In: MRI of the head and neck. Institut Bordet.
 
  • Demolin, D., Ngonga, H. and Soquet, A. (1999). Phonetic characteristics of an unexploded stop in Hendo. In:  Proceedings 14th ICPHS. San Fransisco. 1047-1050.
 
  • Colin, C., Radeau, M., Demolin, D. and Soquet, A. (2000). Visual lip reading of voicing for French stop consonants. In: Proceedings of ICSLP.
 
  • Lalin, M., Demolin, D., Habib, M., Nguyen, N. and Teston, B. (2000). Particularités articulatoires de la dyslexie développementale phonologique. In: XXIIIèmes journées d'études sur la Parole, Aussois.  405-409.
 
  • Nicolis, S., Deneubourg, J-L., Soquet, A. and Demolin, D. (2000). Auto-organsation induite par des fluctuations dans les systèmes phonologiques. In: XXIIIèmes journées d'études sur la Parole, Aussois.  277-280.
 
  • Bucella, F., Hassid, S., Beeckmans, R., Soquet, A. and Demolin, D. (2000). Mesures de pression et de débit sur les voyelles du français. In: XXIIIèmes journées d'études sur la Parole, Aussois. 449-452.
 
  • Corneau, C., Soquet, A. and Demolin, D. (2000). Une étude électropalatographique de la palatalisation en français. In: XXIIIèmes journées d'études sur la Parole, Aussois. 445-448.
 
  • Nicolis, S., Deneubourg, J-L., Soquet, A. and Demolin, D. (2000). Fluctuation induced self-organization of a phonological system. In: International conference on complex systems, Nashua.
 
  • Fougeron, C., Ménadier, Y. and Demolin, D. (2000). 62 to 96 electrodes; a comparative anaysis of Reading and Kay Elemetrics EPG pseudo-palates. In: Proceedings of the 5th Seminar on speech production. Kloster. 309-312.
 
  • Demolin, D., Metens, T. and Soquet, A. (2000). Real time MRI and articulatory coordination of vowels. In: Proceedings of the 5th Seminar on speech production. Kloster. 93-96.
 
  • Giovanni, A., Demolin, D., Heim, C. and Triglia, J.-M. (2000). Estimated subglottic pressure in normal and dysphonic subjects. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol, 500-504.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2001). Some phonetic and phonological observations concerning /R/ in Belgian French. In H. Van de velde et R. Van Houdt (eds.) Studies on /R/. Études et travaux . 63-73.
 
  • Demolin, D., Ngonga, H. and A. Soquet. (2002). Phonetic Characteristics of an Unexploded Palatal Implosive in Hendo. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 32, 1. 1-17.
 
  • Colin, C., Radeau, M., Soquet A., Demolin, D., Colin F. and Deltenre P. (2002). Mismatch negativity evoked by the McGurk-Mac Donald effect : a phonetic representation within short-term memory. Clinical Neurophysiology 495-506.
 
  • Demolin, D. Hassid, S. Metens T. and Soquet A. (2002). Real Time MRI and articulatory coordination in speech. In Model-driven acquisition : Acquisition conduite par le modèle, Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences. Biologie 325, 547-556.
 
  • Soquet A., Lecuit V., Metens T. and Demolin D. (2002). Mid-sagittal cut area function transformations: direct measurements of mid-sagittal distance and area with MRI. Speech Communication 36, 3-4. 169-180.
 
  • Demolin, D. and Weisser, S. (2002). Acoustic characteristics of Ekonda scrappers. Journal of the Ac Soc of America, v. 112, n. 5, 2, p. 2211.
 
  • Storto, L. and Demolin, D. (2002). The phonetics and phonology of unreleased stops in Karitiana. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 487-497.
 
  • Delvaux, V. Demolin, D. and Soquet A. (2003). The role of mimesis in sound change : an experimental study. In: Proceedings ICPHS. Barcelona.
 
  • Nicolis, S., Demolin, D., Detrain, C. and Deneubourg, J.-L. (2003). Optimality of collective choices : a stochastic approach. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 65. 795-808.
 
  • Colin, C., Radeau, M., Deltenre, P., Demolin, D., & Soquet, A. (2003). The role of sound intensity and stop-consonant voicing on McGurk fusions and combinations. In European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 113. 495-506.
 
  • Demolin, D., Delvaux, V., Metens, T. and Soquet, A. (2003).  Determination of the Velum Opening for French Nasal Vowels by Magnetic Resonance. Journal of Voice, 17, 4. 454-467.
 
  • Delvaux, V. Demolin, D., Soquet A. and Kingston, J. (2004). La perception des voyelles nasales du français. In: Journées d'Etude sur la Parole. Fès. 54-57.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2004). Aerodynamic characteristics of French consonants. Journal of the Ac Soc of America. V. 115,
 
  • Demolin, D. (2004). Acoustic and aerodynamic characteristics of ejectives in Amharic. Journal of the Ac Soc of America. V. 115,
 
  • Weisser, S. and Demolin, D. (2004). The acoustics of the Bagana. Journal of the Ac Soc of America, v. 115, p. 2566.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2005). The integration of phonetics and phonology. Estudos Lingüísticos, Campinas, XXXIV, 95-104.
 
  • Cros, A., Demolin, D.,  Flesia, A. G. and Galves, A. (2005). On the relarionship between intra-oral pressure and speech sonority. In: Interspeech 2005. Lisboa. 2165-2168.
 
  • Raposo, B. and Demolin, D. (2006). Vogais nasais do português brasileiro: Um estudo de IRM. Revista da ABRALIN. Vol.5, 131-142.
 
  • Demolin, D., Haude, K. and  Storto, L. (2007). Aerodynamic and acoustic evidence for the articulation in complex nasals. Demolin, D., Haude, K. and  Storto, L. Parole, 40-42, 235-238.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2008). Experimental phonology and the study of indigenous languages. In Proceedings of the 8th Phonetics Conference of China.
 
  • Delvaux, V., Demolin, D., Harmegnies, B. & Soquet, A. (2008). The aerodynamics of nasalization in French. Journal of Phonetics. 36, 4. 578-606.
 
  • Demolin, D., Ades, C. & Mendes, F. D. (2011). Non linear phenomena in muriqui vocalizations. Proceedings International congress on sound and vibration. Rio de Janeiro.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2011). Aerodynamic constraints on the shape and dynamics of phonological systems. Proceedings International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2011). Aerodynamic techniques for phonetic fieldwork. Proceedings International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
 
  • Cissé, I., Demolin, D. & Vallée, N. (2011). The acquisition of plosives and implosives by a Fulfulde-speaking child aged from 5 to 10;29 months. Proceedings International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2011). Communicação anmial e linguagem humana. Instituto dos Estudos Avançados, Universidade de São Paulo. Publication Web. http://www.iea.usp.br/online/midiateca/index.html
 
  • Signorello, R., Poggi, F., D’Errico F. & Demolin, D. (2011). Acoustic features of political leaders’ charismatic voices.
 
  • Signorello, R., Poggi, I., Demolin, D. & D’Errico, F. (2011). Charisma perception in political speech: difference between normal and disordered voice.
 
  • Signorello, R., Poggi, I., Demolin, D. & D’Errico, F. (2011). Il carisma del corpo: caratteristiche acustiche della voce carismatica.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2012). Experimental methods in phonology. Travaux de l’institut phonétique d’Aix-en-Provence, 28. 1-33.
 
  • Demolin, D. & Hassid, S. (2012). Comparative histological data between the vocal folds of humans and bonobo. Evolution of Language. New-York, World Scientific. 428-429.
 
  • Vanpé, A. & Demolin, D. (2012). Human non-lexical vocal events and prosody in the perspective of language evolution. Evolution of Language. New-York, World Scientific. 563-564.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2012). The experimental method in phonology. Revista da Abralin. Vol XI, n° 1. 31-88.
 
  • Signorello, R., F. D’Errico, I. Poggi, D. Demolin & P. Mairano. (2012). Charisma perception in political speech : the acoustic-prosodic features of the leader. Proceedings of GSCP Conference.
 
  • Signorello, R., F. D’Errico, I. Poggi, & D. Demolin (2012). How charisma is perceived from speech. A multidimensional approach. ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security Risk and Trust. Amsterdam. 435-440.
 
  • Stavness, I., Nazari, M. A., Perrier, P., Demolin, D. and Payan, Y. (2013).
  • Effects of Oribicularis Oris and Jaw Position on Lip Shape: A Biomechanical Modeling Study of the Effects of the Orbicularis Oris Muscle and Jaw Posture on Lip Shape. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 56, 3. 878-890.
 
  • Signorello, R. & Demolin, D. (2013). The Physiological use of the charismatic voice in political speech. Proceedings of Interspeech. Lyon. 987-991.
 
  • Weisser, S. & Demolin, D. (2013). The variability as a key concept : when different is the same (and vice versa). In P. van Kranenburg, C. Aagnostopoulou & A. Volk, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Folk Music Analysi Mertens Institute, Amsterdam & Departement of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University. 21-27.
 
  • Chabiron, C., Gally, S. & Demolin, D. (2013). Les parlers Pygmées du bassin équatorial du Congo. Géolinguistique 22-46.
 
  • Gally, S., Chauvin, C., Davoine, P.-A., Demolin, D. & Contini, M. (2013). GéoDialect : Exploration des outils géomatiques pour le traitement et l’analyse des données géolinguistiques. Géolinguistique 1-22.
 
  • Demasi, R., Savariaux, C. & Demolin, D. (2015). An articulatory study of posterior nasal diphtongs in Brazilian Portugese. In Proceedings of the 18th ICPHS, paper 0863, (4p.), Glasgow.
 
  • Gendrot, C., Künhert, B. & Demolin, D. (2015). Aerodynamic, articulatory and acoustic realization of French /ʁ/. In Proceedings of the 18th ICPHS, paper 0919, (4p.), Glasgow.
 
  • Lissoir, M.-P. & Demolin, D. (2015). The Relationships Between Speech Tone and Melody in the Khap Singing of Tai Dam in Laos. In Proceedings of the 18th ICPHS, paper 0642 (4p.), Glasgow.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2016). Clicks, stop bursts, vocoids and the timing of articulatory gestures in Rwanda. Studies in African Linguistics. Vol 45, 1-2. 141-160.
 
  • Givois, A. Demolin, D., Crevier-Buchman, L & Amelot, A. (2016). Investigation glottographique et laryngoscopique de la transition entre les deux principaux mécanismes laryngés. Proceedings of the JEP, Paris. 410-418.
 
  • Demolin, D. & Storto, L. (2017). As origens da linguagem. In José Luiz Fiorin (ed.) Novos caminhos da linguística. Sao Paulo. 215-232.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2017). Dynamique et complexité des systèmes phonologiques. In Mémoires de la société de linguistique de Paris. Diffusion: Implantation, affinités, convergence. Nouvelle série Tome XXIV. Peeters. 21-42.
 
  • Signorello, R., Hassid, S. & Demolin, D. (2017). Aerodynamic features for French fricatives. Proceedings Interspeech 859-863.
 
  • Dehais Alexis & Didier Demolin. (2018). Étude acoustique du cluster /t̪͡ɾ/ et de ses allophones à Santiago du Chili. In 32e journées d'études sur la Parole (JEP) 2018, 532-540.
 
  • Signorello, R. Hassid, S. & Demolin, D. (2018). Toward an aerodynamic model of fricative consonants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 143 (5), EL 386-392.
  • Rosario Signorello, Didier Demolin, Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni, Zhaoyan Zhang, Jody Kreiman, Bruce Gerratt.(2019). Vocal Fundamental Frequency and Sound Pressure Level in Charismatic Speech: A Cross-Gender and-Language Study. Journal of Voice.
  • Rita Demasi & Didier Demolin. (2019). A nasofiberscopic study of nasalized diphthongs in Brazilian portuguese. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. 3478-3482.
 
  • Alexis Dehais, Lise Crevier Buchman & Didier Demolin. (2019). Acoustico-physiological coordination in the human beatbox: a pilot study on the beatboxed classic kick drum. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. 142-146.
 
  • Shi Yu, Sergio Hassid & Didier Demolin. (2019). A phonetic study of subglottal pressure effects on stress and fundamental frequency. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. 2504-2508.
 
  • Minh-Châu Nguyễn, Lise Buchman, Alexis Michaud & Didier Demolin. (2019). A glottalized tone in muong (vietic): a pilot study based on audio and electroglottographic recordings. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. 522-526.
 
  • Didier Demolin, Sergio Hassid & Shi Yu, (2019). Respiration in speech: control, global and local effects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 146, 6. 146, 4.
 
  • Clara Ponchard, Sergio Hassid & Didier Demolin. (2019). Automatic classification of French stops consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 146, 4. 3084.
 
  • Alexis Dehais Underdown, Paul Vignes, Lise Crevier Buchman & Didier Demolin (2019). Human Beatboxing : A Multi-Instrumental Pilot. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 146, 4. 3082.
 
  • Clara Ponchard, Alain Ghio, Lise Crevier Buchman and Didier Demolin. (2020). Automatic processing of aerodynamic parameters in Parkinsonian dysarthria. In Automatic treatment in Parkinsonian speech. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Springer.
 
  • Pillo-Loiseau, C., Garrigues, L., Demolin, D., Amelot, A. & Crevier-Buchman, L. (2020). Le human beatbox entre musique et parole : quelques indices acoustiques et physiologiques. Volume ! La revue des musiques populaires. 125-143.
 
  • Yi Yin & Didier Demolin, (2020). Influences phonétiques et phonologiques des dialectes chinois sur l’apprentissage des voyelles orales du français. In Pu Zhihong et Wang Xinxia (eds.) ELA, 199. 329-346.
 
  • Van de Velde, H. & Demolin, D. (2020). From alveolar r to uvular r: The symbiosis of dialectology, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology to explain sound change in progress. In Diversity: Terms and voices of the language.
 
  • Eleonora Albano & Didier Demolin (2021) Some long-standing issues in Portuguese phonology revisited in the laboratory. In Eleonora Albano & Didier Demolin (eds.) Laboratory Approaches to Portuguese Phonology. Special issue of the Journal of Potuguese Linguistics.
 
  • Demolin, D., Legou, T. & Crevier-Buchman, L. (2021) Les résonateurs du conduit vocal. IN A. Giovanni (ed.). Traité de Laryngo-Phoniatrie. de Boeck. 232-246.
 
  • Hans Van de Velde, Anne-France Pinget, Cesko C. Voeten & Didier Demolin. (2021). Laboratory Sociolinguistics: a new approach to language variation. In Cognitive Sociolinguistis revisited. Mouton De Gruyter.
 
  • Hans Van de Velde & Didier Demolin. (2021). From alveolar [r] to uvular [R]: the symbiosis of dialectology, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology to expalain sound change in progress. In Adolfo Arejita (org.): La diversité : mots et voices dans les langues. Dialectologia, Iker, 41. 289-304.
 
  • Alexis Dehais-Underdown Paul Vignes, Lise Crevier-Buchman and Didier Demolin. (2022). In and out: production mechanisms in Human Beatboxing. POMA Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol 45.
 
  • Shi Yu, Clara Ponchard, Roland Trouville, Sergio Hassid, Didier Demolin. (2022).
  • Speech Aerodynamics Database, Tools and Visualisation. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
 
  • Demolin, D. & Patin, C. (2022). Phonetics. In: Oxford Encyclopedia of Bantu languages. Oxford University Press.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2022). Experimental phonetics and phonology in African languages. Oxford Encyclopedia of Research in Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
 
  • Demolin, D. (2022). Les multiples dimensions des systèmes sonores du langage,
  • Contributions des langues africaines et amérindiennes. Bulletin de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’outre-mer. Bruxelles.
 
  • Demolin, D., Franchetto B., & Fausto. C. (Sous révision). Pharyngal taps in Kuikuro. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
 
  • Storto L. & Demolin D. (Sous révision). Control and articulatory timing in pre- and post-oralized nasal consonants in Karitiana. Laboratory Phonology.
 
  • Demolin, D., Ades, C. & Mendes, F. D. (Soumis) Context-sensitive grammars in Muriqui vocalizations. Nature communication.
      Data bases   Didier Demolin, Sergio Hassid, Clara Ponchard, Shi Yu & Roland Trouville. Speech aerodynamic database. LPP, ILPGA, ArtSpeech.   Francisco Mendes, Didier Demolin, Clara Ponchard & Roland Trouville. Muriqui vocalizations database. LPP, ILPGA, Labex EFL.      
  1. ETHNOMUSICOLOGY  
  Book:  
  • Boers, E., Demolin, D., Lecomte, H. et E. Pennewaert. 2007. Un monde de musiques. Introduction aux musiques traditionnelles. Colophon.
  Referenced book chapters  
  • Demolin, D. 1990. The social organisation of Mangbetu music, in Schildkrout et C. Keim (éds.), African Reflections : Art from Northeastern Zaïre, American Museum of Natural History, University of Washington, New-York, Seattle, 195-208.
  Referenced papers:  
  • Bariaux, D. et Demolin, D. Naissance de la voix d’un tambour à fente chez les Mangbetu. In Cahiers des Musiques Traditionnelles 8. 105-114.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1993. Les rêveurs de la forêt. Polyphonies des pygmées efe de l’Ituri. In Cahiers des Musiques Traditionnelles 139-151.
  CD (original recordings) with accompanying booklets:  
  • Demolin, D. 1986. Mangbetu-Zaïre. Disque LP et texte. ECPC 03. Centre Ethnomusicologique Paul Collaer. Tervuren.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1990. Chants de l’orée de la forêt. Polyphonies des pygmées efe. Fonti Musicali-Traditions du monde. Texte et CD fmd 185. (Choc du monde de la musique).
 
  • Demolin, D. 1992. Zaïre: Haut-Uele. Texte et CD fmd 193. Fonti Musicali and Musée de Tervuren.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1992. Musiques du Nyanza : Luo, Gusii, Kuria. Texte et 2 CD Ocora. (Choc du monde de la musique).
 
  • Demolin, D. 1996. Edition et introduction du volume 3 des archives de l’Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaïre. Elanga Nkake: Losokya. Fonti Musicali. Fmd 302.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1999. Tarabu: chants d’amour. Text and CD Colophon 103.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2000. Edition et textes des rouleaux de cire (Edison Rolls) de musique Zande, Mangbetu, Efe, Mangbele, Bolia, Nkutshu. Edition Congo 1910-1960 du Musée royal de l’Afrique centale, Tervuren.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2004. Musiques du pays Mangbetu. Texte et CD Fonti Musicali and Musée royal de l’Afrique centale, Tervuren. Anthologie de la musique du Congo vol. 3. (Coup de coeur de l’Académie Charles Cros).
 
  • Demolin, D. 2005a. Baali : Chants et musiques de la forêt équatoriale. Text and CD Colophon.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2005b. Sikiliza : Musiques populaires de la forêt et de la savanne. Text and CD Colophon. (Coup de coeur de l’Académie Charles Cros).
 
  • Demolin, D. et Bahuchet, S. 1991. Pygmée : Asua, Kango et Efe. Texte et CD fmd 190. Fonti Musicali et musée Dapper. (Choc du monde de la musique).
 
  • Demolin, D. et Flagel, C. 1995. Edition et introduction des volumes 1 et 2 des archives de l’Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaïre. Ekonda: Sortie de la Walé et Bobongo. Fonti Musicali. Fmd 300-301.
 
  • Demolin, D. et Flagel, C. 1996. Edition et introduction du volume 3 des archives de l’Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaïre. Elanga Nkake Losokya. Fonti Musicali. Fmd 302.
 
  • Demolin, D. et Storto, L. Karitiana : Chants du renouveau de la tradition. Text and CD Colophon.
 
  • Demolin, D. et Storto, L. 2008. Karitiana : Chants du renouveau de la tradition. (Edition spéciale et tirage limité). Text and CD Colophon.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2016. Musiques du Nyanza : Luo, Gusii, Kuria. Texte et 2 CD Ocora. (2e édition).
 
  • Demolin, D. 2016. République démocratique du Congo : Kibali-Ituri. Musiques Hema et Bira. Texte et CD Ocora.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2018. République démocratique du Congo : Musiques Nyali. Ocora Radio-France. C 560285.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2019. Musique des Pygmées Efe et des Lese. Colophon. 140.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2020. Polyphonies de Pygmées Asua. Colophon CD 141.
 
  • Demolin, D., Michiels, F. and Mondo, S. 2009. Musiques des Azande. CD Fonti Musicali and Musée royal de l’Afrique centale, Tervuren. Anthologie de la musique du Congo vol. 12. (Coup de coeur de l’Académie Charles Cros).
 
  • Fausto, C. & Demolin, D. 2013. A dança dos sopros. Aerofones Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Amazônia, Barsil. Museo do Indio.
 
  • Fausto, C . et Demolin, D. (2017). Brésil, La danse du souffle. Ocora Radio-France, C560272.
 
  • Yigezu, M. et Demolin, D. 2000. Musique de l’Eglise orthodoxe d’Ethiopie. Fonti Musicali. Fmd 219.
  Contributions to other musical publications :  
  • Demolin, D. 1989. Mangbetu Haut-Zaïre. Cassette n° 11. Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaïre. Kinshasa.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1990. Lamu Kenya. Cassette n°9. Musée Royal de l’Afrique centrale. Tervuren.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1991. Contribution au CD Alcatel opens the world (Musique des Mangbele).
 
  • Demolin, D. 1991. Contribution à la Cassette: African Strings, vol 1. Musée Royal de l’Afrique centrale. Tervuren. (Musique des Lugbara).
 
  • Demolin, D. 1994. Contribution à un CD : Pulse of the planet. New-York. The nature company. (Tambours d’eau Mangbetu).
 
  • Demolin, D. 1997. contribution à un double CD: Discover the world of Fonti Musicali. Fonti Musicali Fmd 500.
 
  • Demolin, D. & Traill, A. 2007. Polyphonie des !xóõ. Contribution au CD Introduction aux musiques traditionnelles.
  Divers :  
  • Demolin, D. 1987. Drumming in the rivers. Faces. Vol II, n°X, Peterborough. 22-27.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1993. Rujindili maître de l’inanga, musique de l’ancienne cour du Rwanda. In Cahiers des musiques traditionnelles 1993.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1993. Harpes Zande de E. de Dampierre. In Anthropos 88 4/6.
 
  • Demolin, D. 1994 Bowing sounds from dawn to moonlight. Texte de Dhruba Ghosh traduit en français. Fonti Musicali Fmd 202.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2007. Traditions orales, recherche, enseignement et droits des créateurs. In (Ouvrage collectif). Le patrimoine immatériel. Bruxelles, Collophon.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2018. Le rôle et la perception du timbre dans les musiques traditionnelles. Colophon.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2020. Musiques traditionnelles et décolonisation.
  Catalogue notices :  
  • Demolin D. 1996. Anthropomorphic pipe bowl ; Anthropomorphic bark box ; Namambele knife with sheath ; Cephalomorphic decoretated horn ; Anthrpomorphic sanza ; Cephamomorphic decoreated harp. In G. Verswijfer, E. De Palmenaer, V. Baecke and A.-M. Boutiaux (eds.). Masterpices from Africa. New-York. Prestel. 190-192.
 
  • Demolin, D. 2019. Murumba/nogetwe fabric. In Julien Volper (ed.). Unrivalled Art : Spellbinding Artefacts at the Royal Museum for Central Africa. BAI, Africa Museum, Tervuren. 82-83.
 
  • Musique des pygmées Efe de RD du Congo (photos et enregistrements). Exposition permanente dans les salles du musée du quai Branly à Paris.
 
  • Longombe, pluriarc des Ekonda. Exposition permanente dans les salles du MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) Phoenix, Arizona.
      III. DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE    
  • France musique. 3-05-2015. Carnet de voyage au Congo dans les régions de l’Uele, Ituri et de l’Equateur. (Disponible sur site https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions)
 
  • Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Paris. 10-10-2015. Participation à la fête de la science (Les sons des langues du monde),
  • Interview au Journal de TV5 monde sur les vocalisations de muriqui. https://youtu.be/KGO06oO-1lE
 
  • 17-05-2018. Un langage d’une complexité inédite chez les animaux. Journal ‘Le monde’ science et médecine, N. Herzberg.
 
  • The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/12/06/aging-politicians-beware-youthful-voice-could-be-crucial-for-winning-votes/?utm_term=.a12a0a8ce19b`
 
  • The American Institute of Physics https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/asoa-dot112917.php
 
  • Physics Central http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2017/12/what-does-leader-sound-like-scientists.html
 
  • Interview journal Le monde : 19 mars 2019 : L’invention de l’agriculture a-t-elle fait évoluer le langage ?
 
  • 24 mars 2019, Interview télévision chinoise : http://tv.cctv.com/2019/03/25/VIDEb3WaznkgFYOFwX68RWyx190325.shtml?spm=C31267.PFsKSaKh6QQC.S71105.51 , http://tv.cctv.com/2019/03/26/VIDED3J1G966WvFpOvsfgeMB190326.shtml?spm=C45404.PS2uUdzI8xau.S28560.3
 
  • Ramener les musiques sur les lieux où elles ont été enregistrées. Interview with Elijah Madiba (ILAM). Colophon Editions.
 
  • Dans le secret des langues à clics / Percer le secret des langues à clics. Interview donnée au Journal du CNRS. https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/dans-le-secret-des-langues-a-clics
 
  • Musiques traditionnelles et décolonisation. Colophon Editions.
   
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