Non-permanent Members

Research Coordinator

Lucie Ravaux

Research Coordinator (FRONTSEM Project, 2013-2019; ORISEM Project, 2019-2024)

Ingénieur d'Etudes, Institut Jean-Nicod (FRONTSEM & ORISEM Project, ERC)

Primate linguistics

Associate Members

Adriana Belletti

University of Siena

Syntactic theory, language acquisition

Non-permanent Members

Adi Behar Medrano

PhD student (with E. Chemla and B. Spector)


Quentin Blomet

PhD student (with P. Egré)

Conditionals, belief revision and the problem of logical omniscience. 


Jeanne Bruneau-Bongard 

PhD student (with E. Chemla and T Brochhagen from UPF)


Keny Chatain

Post-doc (with P. Schlenker)

Semantics, pragmatics

Co-organizer, LINGUAE lunch


Pablo Diego-Simon 

PhD student (with Y. Lakretz and E. Chemla)

Syntactic Processing in Humans and Neural Language Models


Robert Gavrilescu

Postdoc (EHESS)

Romanian sign language; sociolinguistic variation


Nicolas Guérin

PhD student (with E. Chemla)

Semantics & Machine Learning


Janek Guerrini

PhD student (with B. Spector)

Semantics and philosophy of language
Co-organizer, LINGUAE lunch


Louis Jalouzot 

PhD student (with Y. Lakretz and C. Pallier from Neurospin)

Neural Encoding of Symbol-based Theories

Nur Lan

Post-doc (with E. Chemla)

Human and artificial learning and language


Jessica Lettieri 

PhD student (with C. Geraci)

Sign language, bimodal bilingualism


Giorgia Miotti

PhD student (with C. Geraci and A. Irurtzun)

Sign language, Palaeolithic hand stencils


Reinis Pauluks

PhD student (with C. Geraci and L. Rizzi)

Syntax of sign and spoken languages with a particular focus on syntactic islands


Robin Sobczyk 

PhD (with Y. Lakretz)

Single-Word Reading and Repetition in Deep Neural Models


Thomas Souverain

PhD student (with P. Egré)

Explanability in AI, Machine Learning


Jakob Süskind

PhD student (with P. Egré)

Verisimilitude, approximation to the truth

Co-organizer, LINGUAE lunch


Sybil Vachaudez

PhD student (with J. Kuhn and C. Geraci)

Sign language semantics; Mayan sign languages


 Visitors

Ben Flickstein 

PhD student from TAU

Bird songs and phonology

MA students/Others

Léopold Bouzard 

MA1 Student (with P. Egré)

Subject: internship on VAGO


Carlotta Cascino

MA2 student (with O. Morin & B. Spector)

Subject: Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation


Daniel Dager

MA2 student (with Y. Lakretz)

Subject: Single-Word Reading and Repetition in Deep Neural Models


Wenshuo Fan 

MA2 Student (with P. Egré)

Subject: Truth in Frege


Nina Gregorio

MA1 Student (with K. Chatain & B. Spector)

Subject: Experimental semantics



Blaž Istenič Urh 

MA2 Student (with P. Egré)

 Subject: Vague preferences


Ayoub Ouazzani 

MA2 Student (with P. Egré)

Subject: Structural realism and Ramsey sentences


Nicolas Poisson

MA1 Student (with B. Spector)

Subject: Reasoning


Claire Rong

MA2 student (with B. Spector)

Subject: Sémantique formelle du chinois

Regular Collaborators

Arthur Bonetto

Composer, ORISEM Project (with P. Schlenker)

Music semantics


Isabelle Charnavel

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University

Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, music cognition, dance cognition


Isabelle Dautriche

Researcher, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, University Aix-Marseille

Language development, psycholinguistic with infants and children






Jonah Katz

Assistant Professor, West Virginia University 

Formerly: Mellon postdoctoral fellow, Berkeley (2012-2014)

Formerly: LINGUAE postdoc (2010-2012)

Phonetics, phonology, music cognition

Léo Migotti

Assistant Professor,  IFM

Music cognition, dance cognition, music/language interaction


Robin Ryder

Associate Professor, CEPREMADE, U. Paris-Dauphine

Statistics, evolution of languages, primate linguistics