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Revue de Presse - Julien Plante-Hébert et Victor Boucher

Press Review - Julien Plante-Hébert and Victor Boucher

Revue de Presse - Alexis Lafleur et Victor Boucher

Press Review - Alexis Lafleur and Victor Boucher

Publication dans le Journal Of Phonetics

Pulication in the Journal Of Phonetics

Université de Toronto: Félicitations Aurélie!

University of Toronto: Congratulations Aurélie!

Brain research: félicitations Annie!

Brain research: congratulations Annie!

Frontiers: félicitations Annie!

Frontiers: congratulations Annie!

Le «biais du langage écrit» et le rôle des sciences phonétiques

The "written language bias" and the role of phonetic sciences

Les grands avantages de travailler dans un petit lab

The big benefits of working in a small lab

Remerciements : étude sur les potentiels évoqués

We thank the participants : EEG study

Remerciements : étude sur la voix

We thank the participants : voice study

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Nouvelles descriptions de cours
Pour voir les modifications apportées au cursus de sciences phonétiques (LNG2400, LNG3450, LNG3560, LNG6300), cliquez sur les sigles de cours sous l'onglet "Formation". 

New course outlines
See under "Courses" tab for the relevant changes (LNG2400, LNG3450, LNG3560, LNG6300). 

VocUM : Colloque Universitaire
VocUM est un colloque international annuel organisé par des édutiantes et étudiants aux cycles supérieurs de l'Université de Montréal provenant de différents domaines d'études reliés au langage. Il s'agit du seul colloque multidisciplinaire montréalais dédié au langage. 

Cette initiative permet l'échange d'idées entre des personnes issues de multiples domaines du langage qui évoluent souvent en vases clos et qui se côtoient très peu lors d'activités scientifiques. Dans un effort pour résister à la tendance à l'homogénéisation du monde scientifique, VocUM se démarque également en priorisant la diffusion du savoir en français. 

VocUM est le génitif pluriel de vox en latin. Par les différentes acceptions du mot (voix humaine, son prononciation, accent, parole, mot, diction, sentence, proverbe langage, etc.), ce nom fait référence aux multiples disciplines réunies par le colloque, ainsi qu'à son appartenance à l'Université de Montréal (counément appelée « U de M »). 

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VocUM : Academic Conference
VocUM is an annual, international conference organized by graduate students of the Université de Montréal, all from different fields of study relating to language. It is the only interdisciplinary conference dedicated to language in Montreal. 

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Revue de Presse - Julien Plante-Hébert et Victor Boucher
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Press Review - Julien Plante-Hébert and Victor Boucher
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Revue de Presse - Alexis Lafleur et Victor Boucher
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Publication dans le Journal Of Phonetics
Effects of the growth of breath capacities on mean length utterances: How maturing production processes influence indices of language development 

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Pulication in the Journal Of Phonetics
Effects of the growth of breath capacities on mean length utterances: How maturing production processes influence indices of language development 

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Université de Toronto: Félicitations Aurélie!
Nos sincères félicitations à Aurélie Takam, de la part de tous les membres du laboratoire, pour son poste de professeur à l'Université de Toronto. 

University of Toronto: Congratulations Aurélie!
Everyone at the laboratory would like to congratulate Aurélie Takam for her professor position at University of Toronto. 

Brain research: félicitations Annie!
Nos sincères félicitations à Annie Gilbert, de la part de tous les membres du laboratoire, pour sa publication dans Brain research. 

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Brain research: congratulations Annie!
Everyone at the laboratory would like to congratulate Annie Gilbert for her publication in Brain research. 

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Frontiers: félicitations Annie!
Nos sincères félicitations à Annie Gilbert, de la part de tous les membres du laboratoire, pour sa publication dans Frontiers. 

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Frontiers: congratulations Annie!
Everyone at the laboratory would like to congratulate Annie Gilbert for her publication in Frontiers. 

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Le «biais du langage écrit» et le rôle des sciences phonétiques
Qu'est-ce que le biais du langage écrit? 

"...a tendency to analyze languages using writing-induced concepts as phoneme, word, literal meaning, and sentence, while at the same time subscribing to the principle of the primacy of speech for linguistic inquiry." -- Coulmas (1996) 

The WLB is pervasive in linguistics where, by tradition, speech is analyzed via assumed letter-, word-, sentence-like units despite the lack of working definitions of such units with respect to speech. The WLB extends to assumptions of grammatical categories that are conceptually linked to European-style orthographic systems (e.g. "subject", "adjective", "preposition", etc.). Using such assumptions to represent and analyze oral communication leads overlook the prosodic structure of speech and its function as a communicative act. Instead, speech is conceptualized as reflecting combinations letter- and word-size constructs obeying to a given grammatical ability. Criticisms of the WLB have been persistent throughout the history of linguistics. Here are a few... 

"The series of characters which we read and write as representing an articulate language have given us a mistaken notion of the units which we utter and which we hear." -- Stetson (1928/1951) 

"Almost all linguists have followed Saussure (1916) in claiming to be studying spoken language not written language. But the fact is that almost all modern linguists, like Saussure, never really escaped from letter-based characterizations of language. Audio (and video) recordings are rarely found in the linguistics classroom or in most linguistics research. When we think of "words", "speech sounds", and "sentences" in our descriptions of language, we are importing the conventions of our writing system and trying to use them uncritically as hypotheses about psychological representations." -- Port (2010) 

"For sure, we can force all languages into one abstract mold, which mostly means forcing the grammatical entities of non-European languages into European categories. Just as there was a time when Europeans viewed all languages through the Procrustean lens of Latin grammar, we may now view the native languages of Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Australia through the Procrustean lens of Standard Average European grammar. But why? On one reasonable view, this is just Eurocentrism, plain and simple, and it is not very good science." --Tomasello (2008) 

Part of the work done in the lab and courses such as LNG 3450 deal with the processes underlying basic prosodic structures (cycles, chunks, breath groups) because of the fundamental need to address the WLB in language sciences. Research on these structures and the WLB is understandably scarce within linguistic circles and leads to recognize certain ethnocentrisms in the way professional linguists analyze speech. There are numerous implications extending to areas of research in psychology and neurosciences dealing with verbal processes. 

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The "written language bias" and the role of phonetic sciences
What is the Written Language Bias? 

"...a tendency to analyze languages using writing-induced concepts as phoneme, word, literal meaning, and sentence, while at the same time subscribing to the principle of the primacy of speech for linguistic inquiry." -- Coulmas (1996) 

The WLB is pervasive in linguistics where, by tradition, speech is analyzed via assumed letter-, word-, sentence-like units despite the lack of working definitions of such units with respect to speech. The WLB extends to assumptions of grammatical categories that are conceptually linked to European-style orthographic systems (e.g. "subject", "adjective", "preposition", etc.). Using such assumptions to represent and analyze oral communication leads overlook the prosodic structure of speech and its function as a communicative act. Instead, speech is conceptualized as reflecting combinations letter- and word-size constructs obeying to a given grammatical ability. Criticisms of the WLB have been persistent throughout the history of linguistics. Here are a few... 

"The series of characters which we read and write as representing an articulate language have given us a mistaken notion of the units which we utter and which we hear." -- Stetson (1928/1951) 

"Almost all linguists have followed Saussure (1916) in claiming to be studying spoken language not written language. But the fact is that almost all modern linguists, like Saussure, never really escaped from letter-based characterizations of language. Audio (and video) recordings are rarely found in the linguistics classroom or in most linguistics research. When we think of "words", "speech sounds", and "sentences" in our descriptions of language, we are importing the conventions of our writing system and trying to use them uncritically as hypotheses about psychological representations." -- Port (2010) 

"For sure, we can force all languages into one abstract mold, which mostly means forcing the grammatical entities of non-European languages into European categories. Just as there was a time when Europeans viewed all languages through the Procrustean lens of Latin grammar, we may now view the native languages of Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Australia through the Procrustean lens of Standard Average European grammar. But why? On one reasonable view, this is just Eurocentrism, plain and simple, and it is not very good science." --Tomasello (2008) 

Part of the work done in the lab and courses such as LNG 3450 deal with the processes underlying basic prosodic structures (cycles, chunks, breath groups) because of the fundamental need to address the WLB in language sciences. Research on these structures and the WLB is understandably scarce within linguistic circles and leads to recognize certain ethnocentrisms in the way professional linguists analyze speech. There are numerous implications extending to areas of research in psychology and neurosciences dealing with verbal processes. 

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Les grands avantages de travailler dans un petit lab
Article tiré de "Affaires Universitaires" 

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The big benefits of working in a small lab
Article from "University Affairs" 

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Remerciements : étude sur les potentiels évoqués
Un gros merci aux participants qui ont déjà donné de leur temps pour l’expérience sur les potentiels évoqués par l’écoute de la parole. 

We thank the participants : EEG study
We thank all the participants for their availability in the project on potentials evoked by speech listening. 

Remerciements : étude sur la voix
Merci aux personnes qui ont participé au projet de recherche sur la fatigue vocale. Votre disponibilité a été très appréciée. 

We thank the participants : voice study
We thank the participants in the project on voice fatigue. Your availability and patience was much appreciated.