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Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Created in 1972, the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) is a joint research unit affiliated to both the CNRS and Aix-Marseille University (AMU). Its members include phoneticians, linguists, computer scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, physicists and medical practitioners. The LPL’s activities focus on the mechanisms involved in the production, perception and understanding of spoken and written language in their natural contexts.

Stand up for science - Debout pour la Science
Avril 2025Le Laboratoire Parole et Langage soutient le mouvement international « Stand up for Science » pour défendre la recherche scientifique publique et la liberté académique comme piliers d’une société démocratique et du progrès humain.
Devant les offensives contre les universités et le monde de la recherche aux Etats-Unis et dans de nombreux autres pays, nous souhaitons exprimer notre solidarité avec nos collègues qui font tous les jours de la science un bien commun, au service de la société, que nous devons protéger contre toutes formes de censures, de manipulations ou de pressions politiques.
News
Learning to read starts early: The benefits of premature exposure to the written word
Le Journal of Experimental Child Psychology has just published a recent study led by Stéphanie Ducrot and Jonathan Grainger..
How does our brain process prosody?: Shedding light on the involvement of Heschl's gyrus
The multidisciplinary study has just been published in Nature Communications..
The nature of speech representations in the "literate brain"
Published in "Scientific Reports", the study was carried out using the LPL's EGI recording system..
A look back at R&T Cognition Day
Deirdre Bolger and Thierry Legou were present at the Cognitive Technologies exhibition organized by the Carnot Cognition Institute..
How to assess the risk of virus transmission through speech?
The detailed results from the SpeedVel project have been published in the journal Language Resources et Evaluation..
How can humans and robots work together? Improving the relationship with a conversational assistant in an industrial context
Océane Granier, PhD student at the LPL, has received funding from Carnot Cognition for the ENGAGE project..
Look back at the year 2024: some scientific gems of the LPL
We've put together a little online booklet giving an overview of a year rich in scientific news at the LPL..
The importance of multisensoriality: Clément François awarded by the 5 Senses for Kids Foundation
He has just been awarded one of the 2024 Science Prizes for his project ‘Impact of late-to-moderate preterm birth on minimal pair Word learning’..