Linguist, senior researcher and former member of the research unit
Langues et civilisations à tradition orale - LACITO (UMR7107)
Contact : mazaudon@gmail.com
Martine Mazaudon went to the Himalayas for the first time in 1969 to study Tamang, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal, which was spoken in those days by half a million speakers. This language has been the object of continuous study over the years with the publication of a phonological analysis, and a grammatical sketch (Mazaudon M., 1973, 2003b), aimed at a complete description of the language.
The research she has been conducting with Boyd Michailovsky into Tibetan-Burman languages concerns other Nepalese languages : some close to Tamang and within the same family tree, several dialects of Thakali, Manangki, and of valleys and villages of Nar-Phu and Tangbe, other more remote languages, Hayu, Limbu, and Bahing. Further afield, geographically and genealogically speaking, she has studied Karen Pho, a language of Burma, with a native speaker in Paris, and Naga Angami with a group of collaborators under the supervision of J. A. Matisoff, assisted by a native speaker at Berkeley. She has also done research into the Naxi of China, and several languages of Bhutan, Dzongkha, Bumthang, as well as standard Tibetan.
Languages :
Tibeto-Burman languages (Trans-Himalayan, Sino-Tibetan)
Tamang languages (Tamang, Gurung, Marphali, Syangi, Manangke)
Tibetic languages (Bumthang / Kurthöp, Dzongkha, standard Tibetan)
Kiranti or western-himalayan languages (Hayu, Bahing, Limbu)
Karen lanbuages
Some useful links :
Kailash : http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/kailash/nonjavascript.php
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (LTBA)
Liste des publications dans HAL
Publications :
2017 MAZAUDON Martine — Tamang — In : The Sino-Tibetan Languages [Second edition] / G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla (eds) — London, New York : Routledge, p. 468-493.
2015 MAZAUDON Martine — The evolution of vowel length in TGTM (Tamangish) languages — In : Language and Culture in Northeast India and Beyond : In Honour of Robbins Burling / Mark W. Post, Scott Delancey and Stephen Morey (eds) — Canberra : ANU (Asia-Pacific Linguistics, 23), p. 211-221.
2014 MAZAUDON Martine — Studying emergent tone-systems in Nepal : Pitch, phonation and word-tone in Tamang — In : Language Documentation and Conservation 8 : 587-612.
2014 MICHAILOVSKY Boyd, MAZAUDON Martine, MICHAUD Alexis, GUILLAUME Séverine, FRANÇOIS Alexandre, ADAMOU Evangelia — Documenting and Researching Endangered Languages : The Pangloss Collection — In : Language Documentation and Conservation 8:119-135. [https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/4621/michailovsky.pdf?sequence=1]
2012 MAZAUDON Martine — Paths to tone in the Tamang branch of Tibeto-Burman (Nepal) — In : The Dialect Laboratory. Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change / G. De Vogelaer & G. Seiler (eds) — Amsterdam-Philadelphia, Benjamins (Studies in Language Companion Series 128), p. 139-178.
2012 MAZAUDON Martine — The influence of tone and affrication on manner : some irregular manner correspondences in the Tamang group — In : Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 35(2) : 1-17.
2011 MAZAUDON Martine — Le tamang — In : Dictionnaire des langues / E. Bonvini, J. Busuttil & A. Peyraube (eds) — Paris : Presses Universitaires de France (Quadrige - Dicos Poche), p. 1056-1064.
2010 MAZAUDON Martine — Number-building in Tibeto-Burman languages — In : North East Indian Linguistics, 2 : 117-148.
2008 MAZAUDON Martine, MICHAUD Alexis — Tonal Contrasts and Initial Consonants : a Case Study of Tamang, a ’Missing Link’ in Tonogenesis — In : Phonetica, 65(4) : 231-256. [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00350095]
2007 MAZAUDON Martine — A low glide in Marphali — In : Himalayan linguistics and beyond / Roland Bielmeier & Felix Haller (eds) — Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007, p. 163-188. [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01617548v1]
2007 MAZAUDON Martine, MICHAILOVSKY Boyd — La phonologie panchronique aujourd’hui : quelques repères — In : Combat pour les langues du monde - Fighting for the world’s languages. Hommage à Claude Hagège / M.M. J. Fernandez-Vest (ed.) — Paris : L’Harmattan (Grammaire & Cognition 4), p. 351-362. [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00167046]
2006 MICHAUD Alexis, MAZAUDON Martine — Pitch and voice quality characteristics of the lexical word-tones of Tamang, as compared with level tones (Naxi data) and pitch-plus-voice-quality tones (Vietnamese data) — In : Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006 / R. Hoffmann et H. Mixdorff (eds) — Dresden : Technische Universität Darmstadt Press, p. 823-826. [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00134939]
2005 MAZAUDON Martine — On tone in Tamang and neighbouring languages : synchrony and diachrony — In : Proceedings of the Symposium Cross-Linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena. Historical Development, Tone-Syntax Interface and Descriptive Studies [ILCAA, Tokyo, 14-16 dec. 2004] / Shigeki Kaji (ed.) — Tokyo : ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, p. 79-96 — Cote : halshs-00139489
2004 MAZAUDON Martine — Le soldat dans l’eau (tamang, Népal) — In : Du terrain au cognitif : Linguistique, ethnolinguistique, ethnosciences. A Jacqueline M.C. Thomas — Paris : Peeters, 2004, cédérom — Cote bibli Villejuif : LG MOTT / LACITO-14318
2003 MAZAUDON Martine — Comments on "Classification of Brakaloungic (Karenic) languages in relation to their tonal evolution " by Tadahiko L. A. Shintani — In : Proceedings of the Symposium on Cross-Linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena : Tonogenesis, Typology, and Related Topics, Dec.17-19, 2002, ILCAA / S. Kaji (ed.) — Tokyo : ILCAA, p.55-56 — Cote bibli Villejuif : AS KAJI LAC
2003 MAZAUDON Martine — From discourse to grammar in Tamang : topic, focus, intensifiers and subordination — In : Language variation : Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere / D. Bradley, R. LaPolla, B. Michailovsky, G. Thurgood (eds.) — Canberra, Australian National University, p.145-157
2003 MAZAUDON Martine — Les principes de construction du nombre dans les langues tibéto-birmanes — In : La pluralité / J. François (ed.) — Leuven, Peeters (Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 12), p. 91-119. [http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00166891]
2003 MAZAUDON Martine — Tamang — In : The Sino-Tibetan languages / G. Thurgood, R.J. LaPolla (eds.) — London : Routledge, 2003, p. 291-314. [http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00147443]
2000 MAZAUDON Martine — CR de : Chantyal Dictionary and Texts / Noonan Michael et al., Berlin-New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999, 615 p. — In : Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 95(2) : 289-296. [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00516837]
1996 MAZAUDON Martine — An outline of the historical phonology of the dialects of Nar-Phu (Nepal) — In : Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area , 19(1) : 103-114 — Cote bibli Villejuif : P106 LAC
1994 LOWE John B., MAZAUDON Martine — The Reconstruction Engine : A computer Implementation of the Comparative Method — In : Computational Linguistics, 20(3) : 381-417. Cote : TP LOWE 1994 LAC [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00311507]
1994 MAZAUDON Martine — Problèmes de comparatisme et de reconstruction dans quelques langues de la famille tibéto-birmane : I. Dictionnaire tamang-népali-anglais-français avec index français-tamang et index botanique - II. Matériaux pour une étude comparative des langues du groupe "tamang" : III. Diverses études sur les langues du groupe bodais — Thèse d’État en Linguistique — Paris, 1994.- 3 vol. (93-271-184 p.) — Cote : T MAZA LAC
1994 MICHAILOVSKY Boyd, MAZAUDON Martine — Preliminary notes on the languages of the Bumthang group — In : Tibetan Studies. Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (Fagernes, 1992) / P. Kvaerne (ed.) — Oslo : The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, 1994, p. 545-557 — Cote : TP MAZA 1994 LAC [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00259369]
1993 MAZAUDON Martine — Writing Tamang. A brief note on alphabetisation, spelling and transcription in Tamang — In : Syomhendo [Kathmandu, Nepal], p.15-26 [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00168957]
1991 MAZAUDON Martine, LOWE John B. — Du bon usage de l’informatique en linguistique historique — In : Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 86(1) : 49-87
1989 BRADLEY David, HENDERSON E.J.A., MAZAUDON Martine (eds.) — Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics : to honour R. K. Sprigg. Pacific Linguistics Series C n° 104. Canberra : Australian National University, .
1989 LOWE John B., MAZAUDON Martine — Computerized tools for reconstruction in Tibeto-Burman — In : Berkeley Linguistics Society : Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, n°15, p.367-378 — Cote : P86 LAC
1989 MAZAUDON Martine, MICHAILOVSKY Boyd — Lost syllables and tone contour in Dzongkha (Bhutan) — In : Prosodic analysis and Asian linguistics : to honour R. K. Sprigg / D. Bradley, E.J.A. Henderson, M. Mazaudon (eds) — Canberra, Australian National University, p.115-136 (Pacific Linguistics) [halshs-00009231]
1988 MAZAUDON Martine — Temps, aspect et négation en tamang — In : Temps et aspects / N. Tersis, A. Khim (eds.) — Paris : Peeters (Selaf - NSP 19), p. 179-185. — [Actes du Colloque CNRS, Paris, 24-25 octobre 1985] — Cote bibli Villejuif : celia L87 CEL.
1987 MAZAUDON Martine — CR de : Tibeto-burman tonology. A comparative account / A. Weidert, Amsterdam-Philadelphia : Benjamins, 1987 — In : Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 83(2) : 303-308. [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00522829]
1985 MAZAUDON Martine — Dzongkha number systems — In : Southeast Asian linguistic studies presented to André-G. Haudricourt. Part I / S. Ratanakul, D. Thomas, S. Premsirat (eds.) — Bangkok : Mahidol University, 1985, p.124-157 — Cote : RATA AGH
1985 MAZAUDON Martine — Proto-Tibeto-Burman as a two-tone language ? Some evidence from Proto-Tamang and Proto-Karen — In : Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan Area : The state of the art. Papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday / G. Thurgood, J. Matisoff, D. Bradley (eds) — Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, 1985, p.201-229
1984 MAZAUDON Martine — CR de : An investigation of the tones of Lhasa Tibetan / A. M. Hari, Huntington Beach, California : SIL, 1979, X-232 p. — In : Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 8(1) : 91-99 [https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00506979]
1983 MAZAUDON Martine — CR de : Dictionnaire birman-français (fascicules 1 et 2) / D. Bernot et al., Paris, SELAF, 1978-1979, 227-209 p. — In : L’Homme, 1983, 23(4) : 96-99 [https://www.persee.fr/doc/hom_0439-4216_1983_num_23_4_368462]
1980 MAZAUDON Martine — Mutation consonantique et développement des systèmes de tons dans les langues tibéto-birmanes — In : Dynamique, Diachronie, Panchronie en Phonologie, Journée d’étude de Paris V / H. Walter (ed.) — Paris, 1980, p.35-46
1978 MAZAUDON Martine — Consonantal mutation and tonal split in the Tamang sub-family of Tibeto-Burman — In : Kailash 6/3, p. 157-179 — [http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/kailash/pdf/kailash_06_03_01.pdf] — Cote : P76 CEH
1978 MAZAUDON Martine — La formation des propositions relatives en tibétain — In : Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 73(1) : 401-414
1977 MAZAUDON Martine — Tibeto-burman tonogenetics — In : Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area , 1977, 3(2) : 1-123 — Cote : P106 LAC
1974 MAZAUDON Martine — Notes on tone in Tibeto-Burman — In : Linguistics of the Tibeto Burman Area, 1974, 1(1) : 27-54 — Cote : P83 CEH
1973 MAZAUDON Martine — Comparison of six dialects of Tibeto-Burmese — In : Pàkha Sanjam, vol.6, p.78-91 — Cote : TP MAZA 1973 CEH
1973 MAZAUDON Martine — Phonologie Tamang : Etude phonologique du dialecte tamang de Risiangku (langue tibéto-birmane du Népal) — Paris :SELAF. 192 p., cartes. — Cote : MAZA AGH
1973 MICHAILOVSKY Boyd, MAZAUDON Martine — Notes on the Hayu language — In : Kailash, 1(2) : 135-152 — Cote : TP MICH 1973 LAC [http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/kailash/pdf/kailash_01_02_03.pdf]
1971 MAZAUDON Martine — Phonologie du tamang — Thèse de 3e cycle en Linguistique — Paris, 1971.- 190 p. — Cote : TH MAZA CEH