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Christophe COUPÉ

Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong

Christophe.Coupe@hku.hk

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Coupé, C., 2003, "De l'origine du langage à l'origine des langues : modélisations de l'émergence et de l'évolution des systèmes linguistiques", Thèse de Doctorat, Sciences cognitives, Université Lyon 2, Lyon  (thesis)

Mufwene, S., Coupé, C. & Pellegrino, F. (eds), 2017, "Complexity in Language. Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives", Cambridge University Press, 251 p.  (couv)

Pellegrino, F., Marsico, E., Chitoran, I. & Coupé, C. (eds), 2009, "Approaches to phonological complexity", 16, Berlin, New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 382 p., 9783110223941  (Couverture, Table of Contents, Introduction Chapter)

Coupé, C., Hombert, J.M., Le Néchet, F., Mathian, H. & Sanders, L., 2021, "Transition 1: Modelling the migrations and peopling of new geographic areas by Homo sapiens", in Settling the World. From prehistory to the metropolis era, Sanders, L. (ed), Tours, Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais (article)

Coupé, C., Hombert, J.M., Le Néchet, F., Mathian, H. & Sanders, L., 2021, "Transition 2: Modelling the peopling of an already inhabited territory: The case of expanding Bantu populations and Central African forest foragers", in Settling the World. From prehistory to the metropolis era, Sanders, L. (ed), Tours, Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais (article)

Coupé, C., 2020, "Repenser les distances. Une brève réflexion sur l’épidémie de Covid-19 à Hong Kong", in Chronique du vécu d’une pandémie planétaire. Récits d’universaires, d’Est en Ouest, premier semestre 2020, Breton, H. (ed), L’Harmattan, pp. 57-64

Le Néchet, F., Coupé, C., Mathian, H. & Sanders, L., 2019, "What can a Multi-Agent System tell us about the Bantu expansion 3000 years ago", in Integrating qualitative and social science factors in archaeological modelling, Vander Linden, M. & Saqalli, M. (eds), Springer, pp. 109-135

Coupé, C., Marsico, E. & Pellegrino, F., 2017, "To what Extent are Phonological Inventories Complex Systems?", in Complexity in Language. Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives, Mufwene, S., Coupé, C. & Pellegrino, F. (eds), Cambridge University Press, pp. 135-164  (draft)

Ghimenton, A., Coupé, C., Bonhomme, N., Song, J.K. & Arnaud, V., 2025, "Modeling monolingual and bilingual children’s language attitudes towards variation in metropolitan France.", Journal of Child Language, Online, pp. 1-27

Ponsonnet, M., Coupé, C., Pellegrino, F., Garcia Arasco, A. & Pisanski, K., 2024, "Vowel signatures in emotional interjections and nonlinguistic vocalizations expressing pain, disgust, and joy across languages", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156:5 (open access link)

Coupé, C. & Ollagnier-Beldame, M., 2022, "Toward a phenomenology of taking care", International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 17:1 (article)

Coupé, C. & Ollagnier-Beldame, M., 2022, "La place du langage dans les premières rencontres entre soignants et soignés", SHS Web of Conferences, 133, pp. 03001 (article)

Coupé, C., 2021, "Which cognitive processes for which language experiences?", Constructivist Foundations, 17:1, pp. 13-15 (article)

Coupé, C., Oh, Y., Seifart, F., Dediu, D., Stave, M. & Pellegrino, F., 2025, "Information transmission and speech timing: A cross-linguistic time-series analysis"58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bordeaux, France, August 26-29 (slides)

Oh, Y., Coupé, C. & Pellegrino, F., 2024, "The nature of phonological contrasts as a function of their position within syllables and words", proc. of International Congress of Linguists (ICL21), Poznan, Poland, September 8-14 (abstract) (slides)

Coupé, C., Oh, Y., Dediu, D., Seifart, F. & Pellegrino, F., 2024, "Trade-offs between information and speech rate in naturalistic speech from 49 non-WEIRD languages", proc. of 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Helsinki, Finland, August 21-24 (abstract) (slides)

St-Gelais, X., Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C. & Arnaud, V., 2018, "Entre Québec et France, qu'en est-il de l'antériorisation de /ɔ/ en français contemporain ?", actes de 32èmes Journées d’étude sur la parole (JEP 2018), Aix-en-Provence, June 4-8, 2018, pp. 514-522 (poster) (paper)

Coupé, C. & Maddieson, I., 2016, "Quelle adaptation acoustique pour les langues du monde ?", actes de 13e Congrès Français d'Acoustique joint avec le colloque VIbrations, SHocks and Noise, Le Mans (France), April 11-15  (paper)

Coupé, C., 2018, "Les langues sont-elles adaptées à l’environnement naturel de leurs locuteurs ?", proc. of 6ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française, Mons, Belgique, July 9-13, 2018 (abstract)

Coupé, C., 2019, "Social and environmental constraints on sound inventories", Seminar of the Department of Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 26/02/2019

Coupé, C., Oh, Y.M., Marsico, E. & Pellegrino, P., 2016, "Functional Load and organization scales in phonological systems", LabEx EFL 1st Structural Complexity in Natural Language(s) (SCNL) International Workshop , Paris, 30-31 May 2016

Coupé, C., 2014, "Understanding early human migrations: From archaeological data to statistical and multi-agent modelling", Séminaire Transmondyn, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA, November 14

Coupé, C., 2013, "Quelques approches de la complexité en linguistique. Théories, mesures et modèles. ", Séminaire du laboratoire Inserm "Imagerie et Cerveau", Université François Rabelais (Tours), 24 janvier 2013

Coupé, C., 2013, "Aux origines du langage", Nankai University, Tianjin, Chine, 26 mars 2013

Coupé, C., Arnaud, V., Keenan, K., Saint-Gelais, X., Pellegrino, F. & Levrero, F., 2021, "Exploring within- and across-individual variation of the bonobo vocal repertoire with state-of-the-art classification approaches", 33rd meeting of the SFDP (Société Française de Primatologie – French Society of Primatology), Saint Etienne (France), 19-22 October 2021

Coupé, C., 2021, "Tracing collective memories. A text-mining analysis of print media’s account of the Rwandan genocide", 32nd International Congress of Psychology (ICP32), Prague (Czech Republic), 18-23 July 2021

Coupé, C., Pellegrino, F., Oh, Y. & Dediu, D., 2020, "Evolutionary Perspectives on Speech and Information Rates [poster]", EVOLANG XIII, Brussels, Belgium, 14-17 April 2020

De Carolis, L. & Coupé, C., 2019, "Methodological contribution to the experimental study of sound symbolism: comparison of four different associative tasks", 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL-12) , Lund University, Sweden, May 3-5 May, 2019 (poster)

de Almeida, L. & Coupé, C., 2018, "The very first steps of the early L2 acquisition of French phonology: evidence from a nonword repetition task", Current Issues in Child Bilingual Development, Macquarie University, Australie, 26-27 juillet 2018 (poster)

Oh, Y., Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C. & Marsico, E., 2014, "La complexité des langues du monde", 82, Dossier Pour la Science, pp. 66-71 (site)

Pellegrino, F., Coupé, C. & Marsico, E., 2012, "Les langues du monde : un même débit d'information", 420, Pour la Science, pp. 66-71  (paper)

Coupé, C., 2017, "Participation au programme de radio de « La Méthode Scientifique» pour une émission sur le thème de l’origine du langage, Maison de la Radio, Paris, 16 mars 2017.", France, France Culture, 1h

Coupé, C., 2016, "Enregistrement d’une ressource pédagogique numérique sur les origines du langage, Projet Université Ouverte des Humanités de l’Université Lille 3, Lille, 22 avril 2016.", 5min

Coupé, C., 2015, "Emission sur le thème de l’origine des langues, Programme de radio « La suite de l’Histoire », Lyon, 25 juin 2015.", Radios chrétiennes francophones (RCF), 1h

Coupé, C., 2012, "Participation à l'émission "La Fabrique de l'Histoire"", Paris, France Culture, 45min (podcast)

Coupé, C., 2010, "Les origines du langage et le développement de la pensée symbolique", France, ENS LYON/DGESCO, 70mn

Jacquemont, G. & Coupé, C., 2016, "Quand l’environnement façonne les langues", Pour la science, Janvier 2016