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Christophe COUPÉ

• Research Associate CNRS

 04 72 72 65 46

 Christophe.Coupe@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Teams :     CL² 

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

Origins of language and modern human cognition

Evolution of languages: contexts and processes of language change

Structure of phonological systems

Computer modelling and "complex systems" approaches

Databases in language science: conception and analysis

 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Participant to the ANR Research Project Transmondyn

Organization of the scientific seminars at the Rhone-Alpes Complex Systems Institute (IXXI)

Participant to the 'Laboratory of Excellence' (LABEX) ASLAN (Advanced studies on language)

Scientific evaluations for the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)

 ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES

Member of the Executive Board of the Rhone-Alpes Complex Systems Institute (IXXI)

 TEACHING

Teaching in Linguistics, BSc in Cognitive Science, Université Lyon 2, Lyon

Teaching in Animal Cognition, BSc in Cognitive Science, Université Lyon 2, Lyon

Teaching in Cognitive Neuroscience, BSc in Psychology, Université Lyon 2, Lyon

Teaching in Automatic Speech Processing, MSc in Cognitive Science, Université Lyon 2, Lyon

Training in Excel, MSc in humanitarian and social affairs, IRCOM, Angers

Coupé, C., 2003, "De l'origine du langage à l'origine des langues : modélisations de l'émergence et de l'évolution des systèmes linguistiques", Thèse de Doctorat, Sciences cognitives, Université Lyon 2, Lyon  (thesis)

Pellegrino, F., Marsico, E., Chitoran, I. & Coupé, C. (eds), 2009, "Approaches to phonological complexity", 16, Berlin, New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 382 p., 9783110223941  (Couverture, Table of Contents, Introduction Chapter)

Coupé, C., Marsico, E. & Pellegrino, F., 2010, "Les systèmes sonores des langues comme systèmes complexes", in Qu'appelle-t-on aujourd'hui les sciences de la complexité ? Langages, réseaux, marchés, territoires, Weisbuch, G. & Zwirn, H. (eds), Paris, Vuibert, pp. 37-65  (Paper)

Coupé, C., 2010, "Evolution du Langage", in Biologie évolutive (Chapitre 17 : Biologie évolutive humaine), Thomas, F., Lefèvre, T. & Raymond, M. (eds), De Boeck  (chapter - final draft)

Coupé, C., Marsico, E. & Pellegrino, F., 2009, "Structural complexity of phonological systems", in Approaches to phonological complexity, Pellegrino, F., Marsico, E., Chitoran, I. & Coupé, C. (eds), Phonology & Phonetics Series vol. 16, Berlin, New York, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 141-169  (chapter)

Coupé, C., 2009, "Archéologie cognitive : De la matière à l’esprit", in Darwin en tête : l'évolution et les sciences cognitives, Van der Henst, J.B. & Mercier, H. (eds), Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, pp. 159-192  (chapter - final draft)

Coupé, C. & Hombert, J.M., 2005, "Polygenesis of linguistic strategies: a scenario for the emergence of language", in Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: essays in evolutionary linguistics, Minett , J. & Wang, W.S. (eds), Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong Press, pp. 153-201  (chapter - final draft)

Coupé, C., Shuai, L. & Gong, T., to appear in 2013, "Review of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang9).", Biolinguistics, xx

Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C. & Marsico, E., 2011, "A cross-language perspective on speech information rate", Language, 87:3, pp. 539-558  (paper - final draft)

Gong, T. & Coupé, C., 2011, "A Report on the Workshop on Complexity in Language: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives.", Biolinguistics , 5:4, pp. 370-380  (paper)

Marsico, E., Maddieson, I., Coupé, C. & Pellegrino, F., 2004, "Investigating the "hidden" structure of phonological systems", Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the BLS, Feb 13-16, Berkeley, 30, pp. 256-267  (draft pdf)

Coupé, C., 2012, "Semiotic investigations into early forms of symbolism and language.", proc. of 9th Evolang Conference, Kyoto, 13-16 March, Scott-Philips, T., Tamariz, M., Cartmill, E. & Hurford, J. (eds), World Scientific, pp. 80-87 (poster)  (paper, poster)

Pellegrino, F., Marsico, E. & Coupé, C., 2012, "La typologie des systèmes vocaliques revisitée sous l’angle de la charge fonctionnelle.", proc. of Proceedings of the Joint Conference JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, volume 1: JEP, Grenoble, 4-8 June, ATALA/AFCP, pp. 617-624 (abstract) (paper)

Coupé, C., Marsico, E. & Philippson, G., 2011, "How economical are phonological inventories?", proc. of 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. , Hong Kong, China, August 17-21 (poster)  (paper, poster)

Coupé, C., 2011, "BALI: A software tool to build experimental material in psycholinguistics ", proc. of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference 2011, Paris, France, Sept. 1-3 (abstract) (poster)  (poster, abstract)

Delle Luche, C., van Gompel, R., Gayraud, F. & Coupé, C., 2009, "Relative clause attachment biases are affected by the form of the relativiser: Evidence from French", proc. of CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA, 26-29 mars (abstract)  (abstract)

Pellegrino, F., Marsico, E. & Coupé, C., 2012, "Vowel inventories revisited: the functional load of vowel contrasts", 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Portland, USA, 5-8 January (poster)  (poster, abstract)

Coupé, C. & Hombert, J.M., 2012, "Impact of climatic and ecological contexts on sociolinguistic factors among Bantu populations.", The impact of a major environmental crisis on species, populations and communities: the fragmentation of African forests at the end of the Holocene., Académie des Sciences, Paris, 1-2 March (poster)  (poster, abstract)

Coupé, C., Marsico, E. & Pellegrino, F., 2012, "An evolutionary model of phonological inventories based on synchronic data.", 2nd Workshop on Sound Change, Kloster Seeon (Germany), 2-4 may (poster)  (abstract, poster)

Coupé, C., 2012, "Les langues aujourd'hui et demain", Workshop “L’Homme demain”, Toulouse, 21-22 juin  (abstract, slides)

Coupé, C., 2012, "Ecological constraints on language diversity and evolution", 4th Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL), Beijing, 9-11 November 2012  (slides, abstract)

Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C. & Marsico, E., 2012, "Les langues du monde : un même débit d'information", 420, Pour la Science, pp. 66-71  (paper)