Alexis Michaud
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Michaud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Michaud |
| SIGNATURE | MICHAUD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1165-2680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Pangloss Collection: Opening up research data on endangered and underdocumented languages
In this article, we present the Pangloss Collection, a collection of digital corpora of (mostly) endangered or underdocumented languages, developed in France since the 1990s in the context of a global realization of the considerable potential of digital technologies. The Pangloss Collection currently hosts 1,180 hours of audio and video recordings of about 200 languages. These materials are archived for the long-term using a suite of French publi…
In Memoriam: Michel Ferlus (1935-2024)
L’intonation dans les langues tonales: Des réflexions générales et deux études de cas
Le présent travail illustre ce que l’étude des langues tonales peut apporter à celle de l’intonation. Étudier l’intonation d’une langue tonale amène à distinguer de façon conséquente le niveau des tons de celui de l’intonation, ce qui aide à bien reconnaître la spécificité, la richesse et la complexité de l’intonation. Après avoir rappelé les bases d’un cadre conceptuel, nous exposons une modeste expérience-pilote au sujet du vietnamien et du fra…
Mainland South East Asia
The languages of Mainland South East Asia belong to five language phyla, yet they are often claimed to constitute a linguistic area. This chapter’s primary goal is to illustrate the areal features found in their prosodic systems while emphasizing their understated diversity. The first part of the chapter addresses the typology of word-level prosody. It describes common word shapes and stress patterns in the region, discusses tone inventories, and…
Voix de « ceux qui ne sont rien » en Asie du Sud-Est
L’équipe éditoriale des Cahiers de littérature orale invitant des contributions autour des « oralités contestataires », nous proposons un aperçu de trois documents de littérature orale provenant de civilisations d’Asie Orientale et du Sud-Est : une historiette naxi, un récit khamou, et une chanson vietnamienne, chacun en dialogue avec un texte (article ou livre) tiré de l’actualité sociale et politique. Robin des bois Le titre de l’article de Med…
Appendix to Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel
Comparative data from several language families show that nasality can be transferred between a syllable-initial consonant cluster and the following vowel. The cases reported to date are summarized, and a new analysis is proposed for a set of Sino-Tibetan data. The evolution appears to go in both directions: from the consonantal onset to the following vowel in Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo (Kwa) and Indo-European (Celtic), a…
Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel: From C to V or from V to C
Comparative data from several language families show that nasality can be transferred between a syllable-initial consonant cluster and the following vowel. The cases reported to date are summarized, and a new analysis is proposed for a set of Sino-Tibetan data. The evolution appears to go in both directions: from the consonantal onset to the following vowel in Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo (Kwa) and Indo-European (Celtic), a…
Appendix to Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze
Naxi, Na and Laze are three languages whose position within Sino-Tibetan is controversial. We propose that they are descended from a common ancestor (‘Proto-Naish’). Unlike conservative languages of the family, such as Rgyalrong and Tibetan, which have consonant clusters and final consonants, Naxi, Na and Laze share a simple syllabic structure (consonant+glide+vowel+tone) due to phonological erosion. This raises the issue of how the regular phono…
Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze
Naxi, Na and Laze are three languages whose position within Sino-Tibetan is controversial. We propose that they are descended from a common ancestor (‘Proto-Naish’). Unlike conservative languages of the family, such as Rgyalrong and Tibetan, which have consonant clusters and final consonants, Naxi, Na and Laze share a simple syllabic structure (consonant+glide+vowel+tone) due to phonological erosion. This raises the issue of how the regular phono…
Insights into Naxi and Pumi at the end of the 19 th century: Evidence on sound changes from the word lists by Charles-Eudes Bonin
The word lists published in 1903 by C.-E. Bonin for several languages of East Asia are highly rudimentary; the transcription is based on French spelling conventions. These lists nonetheless provide hints about the pronunciation of these languages at the end of the 19 century. We examine two of Bonin's lists in light of more recent and more systematic descriptions of the same languages, looking for evidence about phonetic evolutions. The Naxi word…
Reassociated tones and coalescent syllables in Naxi (Tibeto-Burman)
The Western dialect of Naxi has four lexical tones: High, Mid, Low and Rising; the latter is rare in the lexicon. Rising contours on monosyllables are frequent in connected speech, however, as a result of a process of syllable reduction: reduction of a morpheme carrying the High tone results in re-association of its tone to the syllable that precedes it in the sentence, creating a rising contour. An experiment (with one speaker and five listeners…
Tonal reassociation and rising tonal contours in Naxi
Western Naxi has three tones (High, Mid and Low) plus a more recent rising contour tone. The first part of the article describes the synchronic process whereby the reduction of a morpheme carrying a High tone results in re-association of its tone to the preceding syllable, creating a rising contour. The second part presents the lexical items that carry a rising tone: ‘native ’ words carrying a rising contour tone point to the use of High-tone add…
Reassociated tones and coalescent syllables in Naxi (Tibeto-Burman)
The Western dialect of Naxi has four lexical tones: High, Mid, Low and Rising; the latter is rare in the lexicon. Rising contours on monosyllables are frequent in connected speech, however, as a result of a process of syllable reduction: reduction of a morpheme carrying the High tone results in re-association of its tone to the syllable that precedes it in the sentence, creating a rising contour. An experiment (with one speaker and five listeners…
Tonal reassociation and rising tonal contours in Naxi
Western Naxi has three tones (High, Mid and Low) plus a more recent rising contour tone. The first part of the article describes the synchronic process whereby the reduction of a morpheme carrying a High tone results in re-association of its tone to the preceding syllable, creating a rising contour. The second part presents the lexical items that carry a rising tone: ‘native ’ words carrying a rising contour tone point to the use of High-tone add…
Reassociated tones and coalescent syllables in Naxi (Tibeto-Burman)
The Western dialect of Naxi has four lexical tones: High, Mid, Low and Rising; the latter is rare in the lexicon. Rising contours on monosyllables are frequent in connected speech, however, as a result of a process of syllable reduction: reduction of a morpheme carrying the High tone results in re-association of its tone to the syllable that precedes it in the sentence, creating a rising contour. An experiment (with one speaker and five listeners…
Insights into Naxi and Pumi at the end of the 19 th century: Evidence on sound changes from the word lists by Charles-Eudes Bonin
The word lists published in 1903 by C.-E. Bonin for several languages of East Asia are highly rudimentary; the transcription is based on French spelling conventions. These lists nonetheless provide hints about the pronunciation of these languages at the end of the 19 century. We examine two of Bonin's lists in light of more recent and more systematic descriptions of the same languages, looking for evidence about phonetic evolutions. The Naxi word…
Appendix to Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze
Naxi, Na and Laze are three languages whose position within Sino-Tibetan is controversial. We propose that they are descended from a common ancestor (‘Proto-Naish’). Unlike conservative languages of the family, such as Rgyalrong and Tibetan, which have consonant clusters and final consonants, Naxi, Na and Laze share a simple syllabic structure (consonant+glide+vowel+tone) due to phonological erosion. This raises the issue of how the regular phono…
Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze
Naxi, Na and Laze are three languages whose position within Sino-Tibetan is controversial. We propose that they are descended from a common ancestor (‘Proto-Naish’). Unlike conservative languages of the family, such as Rgyalrong and Tibetan, which have consonant clusters and final consonants, Naxi, Na and Laze share a simple syllabic structure (consonant+glide+vowel+tone) due to phonological erosion. This raises the issue of how the regular phono…
Appendix to Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel
Comparative data from several language families show that nasality can be transferred between a syllable-initial consonant cluster and the following vowel. The cases reported to date are summarized, and a new analysis is proposed for a set of Sino-Tibetan data. The evolution appears to go in both directions: from the consonantal onset to the following vowel in Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo (Kwa) and Indo-European (Celtic), a…
Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel: From C to V or from V to C
Comparative data from several language families show that nasality can be transferred between a syllable-initial consonant cluster and the following vowel. The cases reported to date are summarized, and a new analysis is proposed for a set of Sino-Tibetan data. The evolution appears to go in both directions: from the consonantal onset to the following vowel in Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo (Kwa) and Indo-European (Celtic), a…
Mainland South East Asia
The languages of Mainland South East Asia belong to five language phyla, yet they are often claimed to constitute a linguistic area. This chapter’s primary goal is to illustrate the areal features found in their prosodic systems while emphasizing their understated diversity. The first part of the chapter addresses the typology of word-level prosody. It describes common word shapes and stress patterns in the region, discusses tone inventories, and…
Voix de « ceux qui ne sont rien » en Asie du Sud-Est
L’équipe éditoriale des Cahiers de littérature orale invitant des contributions autour des « oralités contestataires », nous proposons un aperçu de trois documents de littérature orale provenant de civilisations d’Asie Orientale et du Sud-Est : une historiette naxi, un récit khamou, et une chanson vietnamienne, chacun en dialogue avec un texte (article ou livre) tiré de l’actualité sociale et politique. Robin des bois Le titre de l’article de Med…
L’intonation dans les langues tonales: Des réflexions générales et deux études de cas
Le présent travail illustre ce que l’étude des langues tonales peut apporter à celle de l’intonation. Étudier l’intonation d’une langue tonale amène à distinguer de façon conséquente le niveau des tons de celui de l’intonation, ce qui aide à bien reconnaître la spécificité, la richesse et la complexité de l’intonation. Après avoir rappelé les bases d’un cadre conceptuel, nous exposons une modeste expérience-pilote au sujet du vietnamien et du fra…
In Memoriam: Michel Ferlus (1935-2024)
The Pangloss Collection: Opening up research data on endangered and underdocumented languages
In this article, we present the Pangloss Collection, a collection of digital corpora of (mostly) endangered or underdocumented languages, developed in France since the 1990s in the context of a global realization of the considerable potential of digital technologies. The Pangloss Collection currently hosts 1,180 hours of audio and video recordings of about 200 languages. These materials are archived for the long-term using a suite of French publi…
Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · History (7 works) · Vowel (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Consonant (5 works) · Consonant cluster (5 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 works)