Annie Rialland (born March 17, 1948, in Jans, near Nantes, France) is a French linguist who is Director of Research emerita of the CNRS Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (Paris).
[1] In 1978 Rialland defended her doctoral thesis, “Une langue à tons en terrasses, le gulmancema" at the University of Paris 5.
[2] In 1988 she defended her thèse d’état,[3] “Systèmes prosodiques africains ou fondements empiriques pour un modèle multilinéaire,"[4] at the University of Nice.
[6] Under their direction, the research orientation of the LPP turned towards integrating phonology and phonetics, based on experimental methods.
[8] From 2015 to 2018 Rialland was a member of the French-German ANR-DFG project, BULB, which aims to apply cutting edge speech technologies to help document and analyze unwritten languages (2015–2018).