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Marc Allassonnière-Tang

CNRS researcher at the lab Éco-Anthropologie [EA UMR7206] (CNRS/MNHN/UPCité)
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Présentation

My academic background is in general linguistics, including topics such as syntax and phonology. I worked in the computer industry (ASUS) before coming back to academia. I developed along the way (and I am also still developing) skills in quantitative computational typology and in linguistics to investigate and/or develop existing linguistic hypotheses in terms of synchrony and diachrony. For more details and a full list of publications, please refer to [my website](https://marctang.github.io). **Professional background** - 2021 – present: CNRS Researcher. EA (Ecological Anthropology, UMR 7206) lab at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris, France. - 2019 – 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher. DDL (Dynamics of Language, UMR 5596) lab of University Lumière Lyon 2, France. (80% research - 20% Teaching/Supervision) - 2019 – 2019: Ph.D. Researcher. Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden. (80% research - 20% teaching, 6 months funded contract) - 2016 – 2019: Ph.D. Student. Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden. (80% research- 20% teaching, full-time funded working contract) Defence completed on the 9th of March 2019. - 2013 – 2015: French Instructor. Chinese Institute of European Languages, Taiwan. (Group courses 5-20 members, 30 hours/week, level A1-C2) - 2014 – 2015: Interpreter. International Cooperation and Development Fund, Taiwan. (French/Chinese/Arabic/English interpreter at international events) - 2013 – 2015: Research Assistant. Syntax/Phonology lab, National ChengChi University, Taiwan. (Experiment design, database maintenance, and data analysis) - 2011 – 2012: Product Manager. North Africa division, Asustek Computer, Taiwan. (Product planning, sales and marketing for notebooks and tablets) **Training** - 2016 – 2019: Ph.D. in linguistics, Uppsala University, Sweden/ National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France. Thesis: *A typology of classifiers and gender: From description to computation*. - 2013 – 2015: M.A. in linguistics, National ChengChi University, Taiwan. Thesis: *A GIS typological analysis of the convergence and divergence among numeral classifier, genders and plural markers in the world’s languages*. - 2006 – 2011: B.A. in Diplomacy/Arabic Language and Literature (double major), National ChengChi University, Taiwan. **Skills** - Languages: French (Native), Chinese (Native), English (TOEIC 990/990), Arabic (CEFR B1), Swedish (Swedish for Academics Level 3). - Quantitative methods: Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference (BayesTraits, MrBayes, BEAST), Classification and Regression (Random Forests, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines), Word embeddings (GloVe, word2vec, fast-Text), Computational Linguistics (Word segmentation, POS tagging, Dependency parsing), Web data harvesting (Docker, Selenium). - Computer: Programming language R and Python, Operating systems Linux, Mac, and Windows, LATEX. - Geography: Leaflet, QGIS, Google Fusion Table. - Linguistics: CLAN (Computerized Language Analysis), ELAN (EUDICO Linguistic Annotator), Praat, Toolbox, Treeform.

Publications

A corpus-based quantitative study of numeral classifiers in Nepali

Krishna Prasad Parajuli , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2023, ⟨10.1515/cllt-2022-0064⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03987044v1
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Phylogenetic analyses for the origin of sortal classifiers in Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic languages

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Zhong-Liang Gao , Shen-An Chen , One-Soon Her
Concentric. Studies in Linguistics, 2023, 49 (2), pp.295-315. ⟨10.1075/consl.00031.her⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04299073v1
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Intra- and inter-speaker variation in eight Russian fricatives

Natalja Ulrich , François Pellegrino , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023, 153 (4), pp.2285-2297. ⟨10.1121/10.0017827⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04071781v1
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Operation LiLi: Using Crowd-Sourced Data and Automatic Alignment to Investigate the Phonetics and Phonology of Less-Resourced Languages

Mathilde Hutin , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Languages, 2022, 7 (3), pp.234. ⟨10.3390/languages7030234⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03778651v1
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Defining numeral classifiers and identifying classifier languages of the world

One-Soon Her , Harald Hammarström , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Linguistics Vanguard : a Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences, 2022, ⟨10.1515/lingvan-2022-0006⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03840254v1
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Predicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages: Three methods compared

Jesse Wichers Schreur , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Kate Bellamy , Neige Rochant
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022, 2 (2), pp.93-126. ⟨10.6092/issn.2785-0943/14545⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03911228v1
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The noncausal/causal alternation and genealogical affiliation: Quantitative testing in three Niger-Congo language families

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Stéphane Robert , Sylvie Voisin
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022, Special issue on the noncausal-causal alternation in African languages, 8 (2), ⟨10.4000/lla.4615⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03864516v2
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On Taiwanese Universities' Two-One Academic Dismissal Policies

One-Soon Her , Jie-Wen Tsai , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Journal of Educational Research and Development, 2022, 18 (4), pp.79-112. ⟨10.6925/SCJ.202212_18(4).0003⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03946247v1

Inferring case paradigms in Koalib with computational classifiers

Nicolas Quint , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2022, ⟨10.1515/cllt-2021-0028⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-03095796v1
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Identifying the Russian voiceless non-palatalized fricatives /f/, /s/, and /ʃ/ from acoustic cues using machine learning

Natalja Ulrich , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , François Pellegrino , Dan Dediu
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021, 150 (3), pp.1806-1820. ⟨10.1121/10.0005950⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03435810v1

The diversity of classifier inventory in Mandarin dialects: A case study of Baoding.

Na Song , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Faits de langues, inPress, 52 (2), pp.115-132. ⟨10.1163/19589514-05202001⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03172730v1
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Syllable Complexity and Morphological Synthesis: A Well-Motivated Positive Complexity Correlation Across Subdomains

Shelece Easterday , Matthew Stave , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Frank Seifart
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, 12, pp.583. ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2021.638659⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03435802v1
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What conditions tone paradigms in Yukuna: Phonological and machine learning approaches

Magdalena Lemus-Serrano , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Dan Dediu
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021), 2021, 6 (1), pp.1-22. ⟨10.5334/gjgl.1276⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03435804v1
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Testing Semantic Dominance in Mian Gender: Three Machine Learning Models

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Dunstan Brown , Sebastian Fedden
Oceanic Linguistics, 2021, 60 (2), pp.302-334. ⟨10.1353/ol.2021.0018⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03509042v1
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A corpus study of lexical speech errors in Mandarin

I-Ping Wan , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2021, 19 (2), pp.87-120. ⟨10.6519/TJL.202107_19(2).0003⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03435803v1
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What conditions tone paradigms in Yukuna: Phonological and machine learning approaches

Magdalena Lemus-Serrano , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Dan Dediu
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2021-..), 2021, 6 (1), pp.60. ⟨10.5334/gjgl.1276⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03931468v1

Topic modelling on archive documents from the 1970s: global policies on refugees

Philip Grant , Ratan Sebastian , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Sara Cosemans
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2021, 36 (4), pp.886-904. ⟨10.1093/llc/fqab018⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03435806v1
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Interindividual Variation Refuses to Go Away: A Bayesian Computer Model of Language Change in Communicative Networks

Mathilde Josserand , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , François Pellegrino , Dan Dediu
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, 12, pp.2176. ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2021.626118⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03435808v1
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Expansion by migration and diffusion by contact is a source to the global diversity of linguistic nominal categorization systems

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Olof Lundgren , Maja Robbers , Sandra Cronhamn , Filip Larsson
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2021, 8 (331), ⟨10.1057/s41599-021-01003-5⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03501149v1
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An empirical study on the contribution of formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender of nouns

Ali Basirat , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Aleksandrs Berdicevskis
Linguistics Vanguard : a Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences, 2021, 7 (1), pp.20200048. ⟨10.1515/lingvan-2020-0048⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03435801v1

Investigating the branching of Chinese classifier phrases: Evidence from speech perception and production

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Ying-Chun Chen , Nai-Shing Yen , One-Soon Her
Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2021, 49 (1), pp.71-105. ⟨10.1353/jcl.2021.0003⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03018219v1
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A Statistical Explanation of the Distribution of Sortal Classifiers in Languages of the World via Computational Classifiers

One-Soon Her , Marc Tang
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2020, 27 (2), pp.93-113. ⟨10.1080/09296174.2018.1523777⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529126v1

A simple introduction to programming and statistics with decision trees in R

Marc Tang
Teaching Statistics, 2020, ⟨10.1111/test.12210⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529129v1
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Functions of gender and numeral classifiers in Nepali

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Marcin Kilarski
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2020, 56 (1), pp.113-168. ⟨10.1515/psicl-2020-0004⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529120v1

Numeral base, numeral classifier, and noun: Word order harmonization

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , One-Soon Her
Language and Linguistics, 2020, 21 (4), pp.511-556. ⟨10.1075/lali.00069.all⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03018203v1

Sociocultural gender in nominal classification: A study of grammatical gender

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Hiram Ring
Indian Linguistics. Journal of the Linguistic Society of India, 2020, 81 (1-2), pp.43-62
Article dans une revue hal-03435800v1

The evolutionary trends of grammatical gender in Indo-Aryan languages

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Michael Dunn
Language Dynamics and Change, 2020, 11 (2), pp.211-240. ⟨10.1163/22105832-bja10011⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03018208v1

William B. McGregor & Søren Wichmann (eds.). 2018. The diachrony of classification systems

Marc Tang
Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2019, 19 (2), pp.386-392. ⟨10.1075/lv.00012.tan⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529151v1
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Insights on the Greenberg-Sanches-Slobin generalization: Quantitative typological data on classifiers and plural markers

Marc Tang , One-Soon Her
Folia Linguistica, 2019, 53 (2), pp.297-331. ⟨10.1515/flin-2019-2013⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529132v1
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Word order of numeral classifiers and numeral bases

One-Soon Her , Marc Tang , Bing-Tsiong Li
STUF, 2019, 72 (3), pp.421-452. ⟨10.1515/stuf-2019-0017⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529136v1
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The coalescence of grammatical gender and numeral classifiers in the general classifier wota in Nepali

Marcin Kilarski , Marc Tang
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2018, 3 (1), pp.56. ⟨10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4352⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529164v1
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The lexical and discourse functions of grammatical gender in Marathi

Pär Eliasson , Marc Tang
Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 2018, 5 (2), pp.131-157. ⟨10.1515/jsall-2018-0012⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529137v1

The dynamics of nominal classification: Productive and lexicalised uses of gender agreement in Mawng by Ruth Singer

Marc Tang
Oceanic Linguistics, 2018, 57 (1), pp.255-260. ⟨10.1353/ol.2018.0010⟩
Article dans une revue hal-02529160v1
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Explaining the acquisition order of classifiers and measure words via their mathematical complexity

Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 2017, 5 (1), pp.31-52
Article dans une revue hal-03018225v1
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Lexical, pronominal and zero argument encoding in Movima

Katharina Haude , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Chamoreau, Claudine; Palancar, Enrique. Topicality and the shaping of grammar, inPress
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04321761v1
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The evolutionary trends of noun class systems in Atlantic languages

Neige Rochant , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Chundra Cathcart
Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, pp.624-631, 2022
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03771030v1
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Classifiers in Southeast Asian languages

Alice Vittrant , Marc Tang
Paul Sidwell and Jenny Mathias. The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A comprehensive guide, pp.733-772, 2021, ⟨10.1515/9783110558142-031⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03047627v1

Classifiers in Morphology

Marcin Kilarski , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Mark Aronoff. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, pp.1-28, 2021, ⟨10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.546⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03435814v1

The Effect of Word Frequency and Position-in-Utterance in Mandarin Speech Errors: A Connectionist Model of Speech Production

I.-Ping Wan , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Meichun Liu, Chunyu Kit, Qi Su. Chinese Lexical Semantics, 12278, Springer International Publishing, pp.491-500, 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_42⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03435818v1

Predicting Speech Errors in Mandarin Based on Word Frequency

Marc Tang , I-Ping Wan
From minimal contrast to meaning construct, pp.289-303, 2020, ⟨10.1007/978-981-32-9240-6_20⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-02529149v1

Linguistic Information in Word Embeddings

Ali Basirat , Marc Tang
Agents and artificial intelligence, pp.492-513, 2019, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-05453-3_23⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-02529156v1

La solution en "i" : une solution formelle pour penser hors de la catégorie de "sexe" en français, Atelier "ÉPICÉNIE NOW !"

Marie-Claude Marsolier , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Pris Touraille
Nos Futurs. Genre: bouleversements, utopies, impatiences, Institut du genre, Jul 2023, Toulouse, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04193698v1

A new epicenization solution for the French language, University College London 13-15 juin 2023

Pris Touraille , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Marie-Claude Marsolier
F14 Challenging the binary: non-binary, genderqueer & gender-neutral language, Lily Kahn & Riitta Valijarvi (UCL), Jun 2023, London, United Kingdom
Communication dans un congrès hal-04193640v1

A gender-blind French for both natural and grammatical gender, Freie Universität, Berlin, 1-2 juin 2023

Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Pris Touraille , Marie-Claude Marsolier
Gramatical gender and 'natural' gender: mapping and mismatches, Xavier Bach (Trinity College, University of Oxford), Louise Esher (CNRS LLACAN), Sascha Gaglia (Freie Universität Berlin), Jun 2023, Berlin, Germany
Communication dans un congrès hal-04193564v1

"i ! sang craché, voyelle de la pourpre/du rire/ de la colère souveraines. Une solution formelle pour penser hors de la catégorie de sexe", Colloque international Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later/Vingt ans après, Première Partie, Université de Berkeley, Californie, 17-18 mars 2023

Pris Touraille , Marie-Claude Marsolier , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later/Vingt ans après, Ty Blakeney, William M. Burton, Ilana Eloit, Mary Mussman, Carolina Topini, Agnès Vannouvong, Mar 2023, Berkeley (California), États-Unis
Communication dans un congrès hal-04180235v1

Predicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages

Jesse Wichers Schreur , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Kate Bellamy , Neige Rochant
55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bucharest “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics, Aug 2022, Bucharest, Romania
Communication dans un congrès hal-03905977v1

"The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House. Présentation d’un projet structuré d’épicénisation du français pensé comme outil de rupture épistémologique"

Priscille Touraille , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Marie-Claude Marsolier
Qu'est-ce qu'une femme?, Patricia Lemarchand & Muriel Salle; Cluster Gender LS2N Université de Nantes, Nov 2022, Nantes, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-03926344v1
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Crowd-sourcing for Less-resourced Languages: Lingua Libre for Polish

Mathilde Hutin , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022), Jun 2022, Marseille, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-03706257v1

Languages Worldwide and the World Wide Web: Crowdsourcing on the Internet to Explore Linguistic Theories

Mathilde Hutin , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum Conference 2022), Dec 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland
Communication dans un congrès hal-03887378v1
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Investigating phonological theories with crowd-sourced data: The Inventory Size Hypothesis in the light of Lingua Libre

Mathilde Hutin , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Jul 2022, Seattle, United States. pp.23-28, ⟨10.18653/v1/2022.sigmorphon-1.3⟩
Communication dans un congrès hal-03725715v1

Y'a une lèbre dans la cherbe : étude de la variation du genre dans les parlers du Croissant, d'après les données de l'ALF

Guylaine Brun-Trigaud , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Maguelone Sauzet
3es Rencontres sur les Parlers du Croissant (RPC3), Oct 2022, Boussac (Creuse), France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-03942670v1
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Cross-lingual Embeddings Reveal Universal and Lineage-Specific Patterns in Grammatical Gender Assignment

Hartger Veeman , Marc Allassonnière-Tang , Aleksandrs Berdicevskis , Ali Basirat
Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Nov 2020, Paris, France. pp.265-275, ⟨10.18653/v1/P17⟩
Communication dans un congrès hal-03018261v1
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Term spotting: A quick-and-dirty method for extracting typological features of language from grammatical descriptions

Harald Hammarström , One-Soon Her , Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Selected contributions from the Eighth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2020), Nov 2020, Göteborg, Sweden. pp.27-34
Communication dans un congrès hal-03435822v1
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Lexical and Morpho-syntactic Features in Word Embeddings - A Case Study of Nouns in Swedish

Ali Basirat , Marc Tang
Special Session on Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence, Jan 2018, Funchal, France. pp.663-674, ⟨10.5220/0006729606630674⟩
Communication dans un congrès hal-02529163v1