Permanent Members

Emmanuel Chemla  (external member)

Director of Psycholinguistic Research 

(and Head of the LSCP Language group)

Directeur de Recherche, LSCP, CNRS

Psycholinguistics, semantics, pragmatics, logic, music cognition, sign language, primate vocalizations


Paul Egré

Directeur de Recherche, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS, Professeur attaché, Philosophy Department, ENS

Philosophy of language, logic, semantics, pragmatics



Carlo Geraci

Director of Sign Language Research

Directeur de Recherche, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS, Coordination of office assignment

Sign language (LIS and LSF), syntax, psycholinguistics



Maria Giavazzi (external member)

Maître de Conférences, Ecole Normale Supérieure

Phonology, psycholinguistics



Vincent Homer (on leave)

Chargé de Recherche, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS (en détachement)

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Syntax, semantics, typology, sign language linguistics




Jeremy Kuhn

Chargé de Recherche, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS

Liaison with IJN administration meetings

Semantics, sign language, phonology, primate vocalizations



Philippe Schlenker

Director of LINGUAE

Directeur de Recherche, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS, Global Distinguished Professor, New York University

Advanced Grant Project Leader, ERC

Semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, sign language (ASL and LSF), music semantics, primate communication



Benjamin Spector

Associate Director of LINGUAE
Directeur de Recherche, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS

(Professeur Attaché, DEC, ENS; 2015-2021)

Semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, logic



Brent Strickland  

Chargé de Recherche, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS

Core cognition, experimental semantics and pragmatics