The Archives de la Parole or Spoken Archives have been founded by the French historian of French language and grammarian Ferdinand Brunot at Sorbonne university in 1911. Using a Pathéphone phonograph, he recorded spoken or singing voices, he classified in main sections: I for “interprètes”, O for “orateurs”, L for «langues”, D for “dialectes”. Taking it as a solid corpus, we analyse it using digital tools according to the relation between pitch, intensity and timbre, and find it possible through strong descriptors to recover local, culturally meaningful, categories. The question of whether this new categorisation could be universal will be asked.sessions.
Le laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (Lesc–UMR 7186, CNRS/Université Paris Nanterre), propose un dispositif de soutien aux candidat.es au concours 2027 au poste de chargé.es de recherche au CNRS se reconnaissant dans les perspectives scientifiques du laboratoire et souhaitant leur rattachement au Lesc en cas de recrutement.
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