François Pellegrino
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 169630 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | François Pellegrino |
| NOMBRES | François |
| APELLIDO | Pellegrino |
| FIRMA | PELLEGRINO F |
| AFILIACIONES | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6456-1953 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
There Is More Than Meets the Eye
Color's ultimate physical reality is continuous, and yet human beings “cut” this continuum into a rather small number of categories reflected in their languages’ color lexicon. There are striking cross‐linguistic differences in the color lexicon, which are primarily attributed to differences in communicative needs, but also striking commonalities, attributed to a common human perceptual system. Here, we challenge this notion of a uniform perceptu…
Tackling Hominin Tickling
It is under debate whether intersubjectivity—the capacity to experience a sense of togetherness around an action—is unique to humans. In humans, heavy tickling—a repeated body probing play that causes an automatic response including uncontrollable laughter (gargalesis)—has been linked to the emergence of intersubjectivity as it is aimed at making others laugh (self‐generated responses are inhibited), it is often asymmetrical (older to younger sub…
The channel capacity of multilevel linguistic features constrains speech comprehension
Towards robust complexity indices in linguistic typology
There is high hope that corpus-based approaches to language complexity will contribute to explaining linguistic diversity. Several complexity indices have consequently been proposed to compare different aspects among languages, especially in phonology and morphology. However, their robustness against changes in corpus size and content hasn’t been systematically assessed, thus impeding comparability between studies. Here, we systematically test th…
What’s in the r ? A review of the usage of the r symbol in the Illustrations of the IPA
What does the symbol r mean when it is used in a transcription? Here we analyze the use of the symbols for the alveolar trills ( r ) and taps ( ) among the Illustrations of the IPA since 1971. We begin by sketching the history of the various symbols and conventions used to represent the trill and the tap in two transcription traditions: the Americanist Transcription System and the International Phonetic Alphabet. From the 213 languages covered un…
Optimization of morpheme length
Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and Menzerath’s Law both make predictions about the length of linguistic units, based on corpus frequency and the length of the carrier unit. Each contributes to the efficiency of languages: for Zipf, units are more likely to be reduced when they are highly predictable, due to their frequency; for Menzerath, units are more likely to be reduced when there are more sub-units to contribute to the structural information of …
Complexity in Language
The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recently, this issue has been complemented with the view that languages are complex adaptive systems, in which emergence and self-organization play major roles. However, few students of the phenomenon have gone beyond the basic assessment of the number of units and rules in a language (what has been chara…
Bridging phonological system and lexicon
Across-Language Perspective on Speech Information Rate
This article is a crosslinguistic investigation of the hypothesis that the average information rate conveyed during speech communication results from a trade-off between average information density and speech rate. The study, based on seven languages, shows a negative correlation between density and rate, indicating the existence of several encoding strategies. However, these strategies do not necessarily lead to a constant information rate. Thes…
Vowel systems and accent similarity in the British Isles
Formant frequencies of vowels in 13 accents of the British Isles
This study is a formant-based investigation of the vowels of male speakers in 13 accents of the British Isles. It provides F1/F2 graphs (obtained with a semi-automatic method) which could be used as starting points for more thorough analyses. The article focuses on both phonetic realization and systemic phenomena, and it also provides detailed information on automatic formant measurements. The aim is to obtain an up-to-date picture of within- and…
Investigating the "hidden" structure of phonological systems
Across-Language Perspective on Speech Information Rate
This article is a crosslinguistic investigation of the hypothesis that the average information rate conveyed during speech communication results from a trade-off between average information density and speech rate. The study, based on seven languages, shows a negative correlation between density and rate, indicating the existence of several encoding strategies. However, these strategies do not necessarily lead to a constant information rate. Thes…
Formant frequencies of vowels in 13 accents of the British Isles
This study is a formant-based investigation of the vowels of male speakers in 13 accents of the British Isles. It provides F1/F2 graphs (obtained with a semi-automatic method) which could be used as starting points for more thorough analyses. The article focuses on both phonetic realization and systemic phenomena, and it also provides detailed information on automatic formant measurements. The aim is to obtain an up-to-date picture of within- and…
Vowel systems and accent similarity in the British Isles
Bridging phonological system and lexicon
Investigating the "hidden" structure of phonological systems
Vowel systems and accent similarity in the British Isles
Formant frequencies of vowels in 13 accents of the British Isles
This study is a formant-based investigation of the vowels of male speakers in 13 accents of the British Isles. It provides F1/F2 graphs (obtained with a semi-automatic method) which could be used as starting points for more thorough analyses. The article focuses on both phonetic realization and systemic phenomena, and it also provides detailed information on automatic formant measurements. The aim is to obtain an up-to-date picture of within- and…
Across-Language Perspective on Speech Information Rate
This article is a crosslinguistic investigation of the hypothesis that the average information rate conveyed during speech communication results from a trade-off between average information density and speech rate. The study, based on seven languages, shows a negative correlation between density and rate, indicating the existence of several encoding strategies. However, these strategies do not necessarily lead to a constant information rate. Thes…
Bridging phonological system and lexicon
Complexity in Language
The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recently, this issue has been complemented with the view that languages are complex adaptive systems, in which emergence and self-organization play major roles. However, few students of the phenomenon have gone beyond the basic assessment of the number of units and rules in a language (what has been chara…
Optimization of morpheme length
Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation and Menzerath’s Law both make predictions about the length of linguistic units, based on corpus frequency and the length of the carrier unit. Each contributes to the efficiency of languages: for Zipf, units are more likely to be reduced when they are highly predictable, due to their frequency; for Menzerath, units are more likely to be reduced when there are more sub-units to contribute to the structural information of …
The channel capacity of multilevel linguistic features constrains speech comprehension
Towards robust complexity indices in linguistic typology
There is high hope that corpus-based approaches to language complexity will contribute to explaining linguistic diversity. Several complexity indices have consequently been proposed to compare different aspects among languages, especially in phonology and morphology. However, their robustness against changes in corpus size and content hasn’t been systematically assessed, thus impeding comparability between studies. Here, we systematically test th…
What’s in the r ? A review of the usage of the r symbol in the Illustrations of the IPA
What does the symbol r mean when it is used in a transcription? Here we analyze the use of the symbols for the alveolar trills ( r ) and taps ( ) among the Illustrations of the IPA since 1971. We begin by sketching the history of the various symbols and conventions used to represent the trill and the tap in two transcription traditions: the Americanist Transcription System and the International Phonetic Alphabet. From the 213 languages covered un…
Tackling Hominin Tickling
It is under debate whether intersubjectivity—the capacity to experience a sense of togetherness around an action—is unique to humans. In humans, heavy tickling—a repeated body probing play that causes an automatic response including uncontrollable laughter (gargalesis)—has been linked to the emergence of intersubjectivity as it is aimed at making others laugh (self‐generated responses are inhibited), it is often asymmetrical (older to younger sub…
There Is More Than Meets the Eye
Color's ultimate physical reality is continuous, and yet human beings “cut” this continuum into a rather small number of categories reflected in their languages’ color lexicon. There are striking cross‐linguistic differences in the color lexicon, which are primarily attributed to differences in communicative needs, but also striking commonalities, attributed to a common human perceptual system. Here, we challenge this notion of a uniform perceptu…
Computer Science (10 obras) · Linguistics (10 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Mathematics (5 obras) · Natural language processing (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Speech recognition (5 obras) · Language and cultural evolution (4 obras)