Louis-Jean BOE

My background is essentially scientific (sound analysis) and linguistic (phonetics). A research devoted to a multidisciplinary collaborative work in team, in the field of speech sciences. More particularly in the articulatory, acoustic, phonetic and cognitive domains of the sounds of the world's languages and their systems thanks to the use of models and then for the last fifteen years on ontogeny and phylogeny of sound communication. Interested in the modeling of the vocal tract from fetus to adult women and men, then on the reconstruction of the Neanderthal vocal tract and finally on the emergence of speech from the vocalizations of non-human primates. Now that the lock of the theory of the descent of the larynx is completely lifted, a vast bio-acoustic project of analysis of the vocalizations of monkeys and apes associated with the ethological contexts in which they were produced is beginning to be set up. This is a new paradigm, largely multidisciplinary, which can call upon the speech communication developed in phonetics with the anatomy/modeling of the vocal tract, signal processing and the description/prediction of the sound systems of the world's languages.  However, in view of the data and results already available, the study of the vocalization systems of non-human primates cannot be limited to a simple transposition of the protocols used for speech.