Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie
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The Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP) is a CNRS laboratory affiliated with the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle
in Paris
, France
. Its directors are Jacqueline Vaissière and Annie Rialland (in alternation).
The LPP is a Mixed Research Unit (UMR 7018) specialized in teaching and research in experimental phonetics
and in phonology
. Research in clinical phonetics is conducted at the Service d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie (ORL) of the Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou
(HEGP), Paris. The LPP offers graduate-level courses leading to a doctoral degree. One of its central research themes is the development of an integrated approach to phonetics and phonology.
Its principal research areas have included:
University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle
The New Sorbonne University is a public university in Paris, France.The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle is a founding member of the Paris Universitas, a union of 6 Parisian universities....
in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
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. Its directors are Jacqueline Vaissière and Annie Rialland (in alternation).
The LPP is a Mixed Research Unit (UMR 7018) specialized in teaching and research in experimental phonetics
Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs : their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory...
and in phonology
Phonology
Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...
. Research in clinical phonetics is conducted at the Service d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie (ORL) of the Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou
Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou
The Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou is a French hospital located in Paris. The HEGP is under the aegis of the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris ....
(HEGP), Paris. The LPP offers graduate-level courses leading to a doctoral degree. One of its central research themes is the development of an integrated approach to phonetics and phonology.
Its principal research areas have included:
- variation in spontaneous speechSpeechSpeech is the human faculty of speaking.It may also refer to:* Public speaking, the process of speaking to a group of people* Manner of articulation, how the body parts involved in making speech are manipulated...
- clinical phonetics
- Prosody (linguistics)Prosody (linguistics)In linguistics, prosody is the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. Prosody may reflect various features of the speaker or the utterance: the emotional state of the speaker; the form of the utterance ; the presence of irony or sarcasm; emphasis, contrast, and focus; or other elements of...
: analysis, typology, interfaces - phonological systems: models, descriptive studies, typology
- development of tools for research and teaching
- acoustic phoneticsAcoustic phoneticsAcoustic phonetics is a subfield of phonetics which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics investigates properties like the mean squared amplitude of a waveform, its duration, its fundamental frequency, or other properties of its frequency spectrum, and the relationship...
and articulatory modelling