Alexis Michaud is a French linguist specialising in the study of Southeast Asian languages, especially Naic languages 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

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. 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

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Selected publications

* * * * 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.
* * * * * * 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.

* Alexis Michaud 2017. ''Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical tones and morphotonology'', Berlin: Language Science Press

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External links

Professional page
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"Sound Hunter": A documentary film on Michaud's work (Tianjin TV, 2012)

Publications available from the Open Archive HAL
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