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RÉMI ANSELME - 2024


Congratulations to Rémi Anselme for receiving an “honorable mention” for the 2024 Greenberg Award from the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) for his dissertation titled: "The representation of the trill in typology: from acoustic features to phonemic inventory". "The Joseph Greenberg Award recognizes and honours the best piece of typological research embodied in a doctoral dissertation or equivalent in the award period."


MATHILDE JOSSERAND - 2024


Congratulations to Mathilde Josserand for receiving an honorable mention at the 2024 Thesis Prize from the University Lumière Lyon 2 for her thesis titled: “Impact of inter-individual and inter-group variations on language evolution”. The jury awarded 3 prizes, and considering the quality of the applications, they also decided to grant 2 honorable mentions.


MATHILDE JOSSERAND - 2024

Congratulations to Mathilde Josserand for receiving the CSS/France Thesis Award 2024 presented by the French Society of Complex Systems for her thesis “Impact of inter-individual and inter-group variations on language evolution”. Congrats to her!


AITANA GARCIA ARASCO - 2024


Congratulations to Aitana Garcia Arasco for receiving the 2024 Aldis Award from the International Society for Human Ethology, which will fund her project "Non-verbal vocalisations in a cross-cultural ethological perspective". This award encourages cutting-edge research on human behavior using biological methods, with a focus on observational studies in natural environments.


DAVID GINEBRA - 2023


Congratulations to David Ginebra for receiving the Jason Tuzon 2023 Prize at its 5th edition for his master's thesis "A phonological description of Yamalero, the language of ethnic Yaruro in the Colombian Eastern Plains," awarded by the Grup d’Estudi de Llengües Amenaçades at the University of Barcelona, the Xarxa Vives d’Universitats, and Òmnium Cultural.


RÉMI ANSELME - 2023


Congratulations to Rémi Anselme for receiving an honorable mention at the 2023 Thesis Prize from the University Lumière Lyon 2 for his thesis titled: "The representation of the trill in typology: from acoustic features to phonemic inventory." The jury awarded 3 prizes, and considering the quality of the applications, they also decided to grant 3 honorable mentions.


KASIA PISANSKI - 2023


Congratulations to Katarzyna Pisanski, winner of the 2023 CNRS Bronze Medal! "The bronze medal rewards initial research that has established a researcher as a specialist in their field. This distinction is a form of encouragement to pursue research that is already well underway and proving successful."

A synthesis of her work to read online.


MATHILDE JOSSERAND - 2022

Congratulations to Mathilde Josserand who received the James Hurford Prize for best Student Paper 2022 as Runner up for her presentation entitled "The color lexicon is shaped by environment and biology: comparing Himba and French colour perception" at the Joint Conference of Language Evolution (JCoLe). Congrats to her!


ESTEBAN DIAZ MONTENEGRO - 2022

Congratulations to Esteban Diaz Montenegro whose thesis El habla nasa (páez) de Munchique (Colombia) (Université Lumière Lyon 2) has been awarded a Honorable Mention for the 2022 Mary Haas Book Award of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.


DENIS BERTET - 2021

Congratulations to Denis Bertet whose thesis Aspects of Tikuna grammar (Colombia) has been awarded an accessit for the 2021 thesis prize of Université Lumière Lyon 2.


MATTHEW STAVE - 2021

Matthew Stave has received the fisrt prize for "the best presentation by a post-doctoral researcher" "a usage-based approach to morphological typology" at the 54th annual conference organized by the Societas Linguistica Europaea.
Congrats to him.


GENY GONZALES CASTANO - 2021

Geny Gonzalez Castaño has received an honorable mention for the Mary R. Haas Book Award of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas for her PhD thesis entitled "Una gramática de la lengua namtrik de Totoró - Lengua barbacoa hablada en los Andes colombianos" (Université Lumière Lyon 2).


Sophie BOUTON - 2020

Sophie Bouton, has been awarded the “Prize Human and Social Sciences 2020” of the Association Rayonnement du CNRS: Anciens et Amis du CNRS (A3CNRS), of the Association des Amis de l'Université de Lyon and the Maison des Sciences Humaines Lyon St Etienne (MSH-LSE).


Adam TALLMAN - 2019

Adam Tallman was awarded the Mary R. Haas Book Award - honorable mention of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas for his PhD entitled A Grammar of Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon (PhD, University of Texas, Austin USA).



Elisa DEMURU - 2019

Elisa Demuru has been awarded "the 2019 Foreign Post-Doctoral Prize" of the Association des Amis de l'Université de Lyon.

Find here the video of the award ceremony which took place on :
Thursday, 14 November from 18h to 20h in the Grand Amphitheatre of the University of Lyon 2

The award ceremony was preceded by 2 conferences for the general public on the theme: "What do animals say? ».
Find here the video of the conference "what do bonobos say when they play" presented by Elisa Demuru.



Shelece EASTERDAY - 2019

Shelece EASTERDAY was awarded the prestigious Joseph Greenberg Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology for her PhD thesis entitled Highly Complex Syllable Structure: A Typological Study of its Phonological Characteristics and Diachronic Development (PhD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA).

Shelece was invited to give a plenary talk on her work at the 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, which took place in Pavia, Italy (4-6 September 2019).



Awards prior to 2019


2016 Brigitte Pakendorf CNRS Silver Medal
2016 Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada Best Thesis Award for 2015, jointly supervised between France and Canada, awarded by the France-Canada Research Fund
2015 Leslie Lemarchand MT180, Public Award
2015 Katarzyna Janic International Greenberg Award from the Linguistic Typology Association
2015 Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada “Mary R. Haas Book Award 2015” (SSILA)
2011 Anne-Laure Dotte Excellence Award from the Southern Province of New Caledonia for her Master's thesis in Language Sciences at Université Lumière Lyon 2
2010 Anne-Laure Dotte Research Encouragement Award from the Government of New Caledonia
2009 Antoine Guillaume CNRS Bronze Medal
2009 Harriet Jisa Senior Member, Institut Universitaire de France
2008 Emmanuel Ferragne Thesis Award from the Francophone Association of Spoken Communication
2007 Colette Grinevald Senior Member, Institut Universitaire de France
2006 Julien Meyer Rolex Award (Cultural Heritage category)
2004 Françoise Rose Award for Young Researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences from the City of Lyon
2004 Denis Creissels Antoine Meillet Award from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France
2003 Christophe Coupé Award for Young Researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences from the City of Lyon
2000 Ioana Vasilescu Award for Young Researcher from the City of Lyon
1999 Melissa Barkat-Defradas Award for Young Researcher from the City of Lyon

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