Annie Rialland
{{short description|French linguist (b. 1948)}}
{{Infobox academic|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1948|03|17}}|birth_place=Jans, France|alma_mater=Paris Descartes University|thesis_title=Une langue à tons en terrasses, le gulmancema|thesis_year=1978|discipline=Linguist}}
Annie Rialland (born March 17, 1948, in Jans, near Nantes, France) is a French linguist who is Director of Research emerita of the CNRS Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (Paris). Her main domains of expertise are phonetics, phonology, prosody, and African languages.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=SPDdvOYAAAAJ&hl=fr|title=Annie Rialland - Citations Index|website=scholar.google.fr|access-date=2018-12-07}}
Education and research
In 1978 Rialland defended her doctoral thesis, “Une langue à tons en terrasses, le gulmancema" at the University of Paris 5.{{Cite thesis|url=http://www.sudoc.fr/006763650|title=Une langue à tons en terrasses, le gulmancema|last=Rialland|first=Annie|website=www.sudoc.abes.fr|date=1979 |access-date=2018-12-07}} In 1988 she defended her thèse d’état,{{Cite web|url=https://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/opinions/le-doctorat-une-tradition-a-l-aube-de-sa-potentielle-transformation.html|title=Le doctorat : une tradition à l'aube de sa (potentielle) transformation|website=www.letudiant.fr|date=7 June 2017 |language=fr|access-date=2018-12-07}} “Systèmes prosodiques africains ou fondements empiriques pour un modèle multilinéaire,"{{Cite thesis|url=http://www.sudoc.fr/041371070|title=Systèmes prosodiques africains...|last=Rialland|first=Annie|website=www.sudoc.abes.fr|date=1988 |access-date=2018-12-07}} at the University of Nice.
From the beginning, her scientific approach combined phonetic and phonological perspectives (autosegmental phonology, in particular). Over the years, her work investigated a broad range of languages, mainly African (from various language families: Gur, Mandé, Atlantic, Bantu), but also French and the whistled language of La Gomera. She has also supervised doctoral theses on the phonetics and phonology of a diverse range of languages (Berber, Bantu languages, Japanese, among others).{{Cite web|url=http://www.theses.fr/?q=annie%20rialland|title=theses.fr, explorer les 42 thèses pour annie rialland|last=supérieur (ABES)|first=Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement|website=www.theses.fr|access-date=2018-12-07}}
Career at the LPP
With Jacqueline Vaissière, Rialland co-directed the Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (LPP) in Paris for 15 years, from 1991 to 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://lpp.in2p3.fr/Un-peu-d-histoire|title=LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR7018 - Paris3 - Un peu d'histoire|website=lpp.in2p3.fr|access-date=2018-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615173848/http://lpp.in2p3.fr/Un-peu-d-histoire|archive-date=2018-06-15|url-status=dead}} Under their direction, the research orientation of the LPP turned towards integrating phonology and phonetics, based on experimental methods.
While at the LPP, Rialland was involved in a number of international collaborative projects funded by leading funding agencies. She co-directed, with Laura J. Downing, a French-German ANR-DFG project, BANTUPSYN, devoted to the Phonology-syntax Interface in Bantu languages (2009–2012).{{Cite web|url=http://www.univ-paris3.fr/anr-bantupsyn-59974.kjsp|title=Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 - ANR - BANTUPSYN|last=Lacombe|first=Stephanie|website=www.univ-paris3.fr|language=fr-FR|access-date=2018-12-07}} Rialland was one of the co-pilots of DIAREF, a project on child language acquisition (2010–2013).{{Cite web|url=http://www.univ-paris3.fr/anr-diaref-37421.kjsp|title=Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 - ANR DIAREF|last=Orvig|first=Anne Salazar|website=www.univ-paris3.fr|language=fr-FR|access-date=2018-12-07}} From 2015 to 2018 Rialland was a member of the French-German ANR-DFG project, BULB, which aims to apply cutting edge speech technologies to help document and analyze unwritten languages (2015–2018).{{Citation|doi=10.1016/j.procs.2016.04.023|title=Breaking the Unwritten Language Barrier: The BULB Project|journal=Procedia Computer Science|volume=81|pages=8–14|year=2016|last1=Adda|first1=Gilles|last2=Stüker|first2=Sebastian|last3=Adda-Decker|first3=Martine|last4=Ambouroue|first4=Odette|last5=Besacier|first5=Laurent|last6=Blachon|first6=David|last7=Bonneau-Maynard|first7=Hélène|last8=Godard|first8=Pierre|last9=Hamlaoui|first9=Fatima|last10=Idiatov|first10=Dmitry|last11=Kouarata|first11=Guy-Noël|last12=Lamel|first12=Lori|author12-link=Lori Lamel|last13=Makasso|first13=Emmanuel-Moselly|last14=Rialland|first14=Annie|last15=Van De Velde|first15=Mark|last16=Yvon|first16=François|last17=Zerbian|first17=Sabine|doi-access=free}}
Honors
Rialland was President of the Société de Linguistique de Paris in 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.slp-paris.com/spip.php?rubrique6|title=Présidents et secrétaires - Société de linguistique de Paris|website=www.slp-paris.com|access-date=2018-12-07}} She received an Honor Award from the West African Linguistic Society in 2017. In 2019 she was elected to the Academy of Europe.{{Cite web |title=Academy of Europe: Rialland Annie |url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rialland_Annie |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=www.ae-info.org}}
Personal life
She was married to G. Nick Clements, an American theoretical phonologist; they are the parents of two children, William R. Clements and Celia A. Clements.{{Cite web|url=http://lpp.in2p3.fr/doc_html/remembering-nick-clements-new-ok.html|title=Remembering G. Nick Clements|website=lpp.in2p3.fr|access-date=2018-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173533/http://lpp.in2p3.fr/doc_html/remembering-nick-clements-new-ok.html|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book|doi=10.1075/la.24.04cle|chapter=Are There Cleft Sentences in French?|title=The Grammar of Focus|volume=24|pages=83|series=Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today|year=1999|last1=Clech-Darbon|first1=Anne|last2=Rebuschi|first2=Georges|last3=Rialland|first3=Annie|isbn=978-90-272-2745-4}}
- Clements, G., & Rialland, A. (2007). Africa as a phonological area. In B. Heine & D. Nurse (Eds.), A Linguistic Geography of Africa (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact, pp. 36-85). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486272.004
- {{cite book|doi=10.1515/9783110503524|title=Intonation in African Tone Languages|year=2016|isbn=9783110503524|last1=Downing|first1=Laura J.|last2=Rialland|first2=Annie}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0952675705000552|title=Phonological and phonetic aspects of whistled languages|journal=Phonology|volume=22|issue=2|pages=237–271|year=2005|last1=Rialland|first1=Annie|s2cid=18615779 |citeseerx=10.1.1.484.4384}}
- {{cite book|doi=10.1515/9783110207569.35|chapter=Question prosody: An African perspective|title=Tones and Tunes: Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody|volume=1|pages=35–62|series=Phonology and Phonetics|year=2007|last1=Rialland|first1=Annie|isbn=978-3-11-019057-1}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1515/ling.2001.038|title=The intonational system of Wolof|journal=Linguistics|volume=39|issue=5|year=2001|last1=Rialland|first1=Annie|last2=Robert|first2=Stéphane|url=https://hal.science/hal-00382680 }}
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