LACITO (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale) is a multidisciplinary research organisation, principally devoted to the study of cultures and languagesoforal tradition.
Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1976 |
| Affiliation | CNRS |
| Director | Lameen Souag |
Academic staff | 24 |
Administrative staff | 5 |
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| Location | , , |
| Website | http://lacito.cnrs.fr |
LACITO is a branch of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the principal network of researchers in France. It is thus occasionally referred to as LACITO–CNRSorCNRS–LACITO.
Created in 1976 by André-Georges Haudricourt, LACITO is specialized in the description, documentation and analysis of under-documented languages of the world. The members of LACITO are linguists and linguistic anthropologists.
The main perspective adopted by LACITO’s researchers is that of language typology, as linguistic structures are compared in search of universals, yet with special attention to their diversity. Besides language documentation and grammatical description, research at LACITO also includes historical linguistics, lexicography, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, verbal art and cultural diversity.
An important contribution of LACITO is the Pangloss Collection, for the preservation of valuable audio archives in the world's endangered languages.
Linguistic research at LACITO involves fieldwork in various language families, including:[1]
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