Alexis Michaud
Alexis Michaud is a French linguist specialised in the study of South-East Asian languages, especially Naic languages[1] and Vietnamese. He is also known for his work on the typology of tonal languages and as a foremost proponent of Panchronic phonology. He is one of the main editors of the Pangloss Collection. He works at the LACITO research centre within Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
He is member of the editorial board of journals such as Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area and associate editor of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
A documentary film entitled Sound hunter was made about his fieldwork in Yunnan, China.
Representative publications
- Michaud, Alexis 2004. Final consonants and glottalization: new perspectives from Hanoi Vietnamese. Phonetica 61 (2-3), 119-146.
- Michailovsky, Boyd; Michaud, Alexis (2006). "Syllabic inventory of a Western Naxi dialect, and correspondence with Joseph F. Rock's transcriptions". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 35 (1): 3–21. doi:10.3406/clao.2006.1745.
- Michaud, Alexis (2006). "Three extreme cases of neutralisation: nasality, retroflexion and lip-rounding in Naxi". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 35 (1): 23–55. doi:10.3406/clao.2006.1746.
- Michaud, Alexis. 2006. “Replicating in Naxi (Tibeto-Burman) an experiment designed for Yorùbá: An approach to ‘prominence-sensitive prosody’ vs. ‘calculated prosody’”, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden. Available online.
- Mazaudon, Martine; Michaud, Alexis (2008). "Tonal contrasts and initial consonants: a case study of Tamang, a 'missing link' in tonogenesis". Phonetica. 65 (3): 231–256.
- Michaud, Alexis; He, Xueguang (2009). "Reassociated tones and coalescent syllables in Naxi (Tibeto-Burman)". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 37 (3): 237–255.
- Michaud, Alexis (2011). "The tones of numerals and numeral-plus-classifier phrases: on structural similarities between Naxi, Na and Laze". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 34 (1): 1–26.
- Jacques, Guillaume; Michaud, Alexis (2011). "Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze". Diachronica. 28 (4): 468–498. doi:10.1075/dia.28.4.02jac.
- Michaud, Alexis; Jacques, Guillaume; Rankin, Robert (2012). "Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel: from C to V or from V to C?". Diachronica. 29 (2): 201–230. doi:10.1075/dia.29.2.04mic.
- Michaud, Alexis (2012), "Monosyllabicization: Patterns of Evolution in Asian Languages", in Nicole Nau; Thomas Stolz; Cornelia Stroh, Monosyllables: From Phonology to Typology, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 115–130.
- Michaud, Alexis (2015) Online Na-English-Chinese Dictionary, version 1.0
Notes
- ↑ Bureau du CNRS en Chine (2016). "A l'écoute des Naxi, sur les traces de Joseph Rock, Ge A-Gan et de l'enfant crapaud" (PDF). Le CNRS en Chine. 21: 26-28. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
External links
- Professional page
- (Chinese) "Sound Hunter": A documentary film on Michaud's work (Tianjin TV, 2012)
- Publications available from the Open Archive HAL
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