• EVOGRAM: The role of linguistic and non-linguistic factors in the evolution of nominal classification systems - Junior Researcher Grant (ANR-JCJC) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR-20-CE27-0021, 166 936 euros) - Principal Investigator. This two-year project (2021-2023) aims at building a database on nominal classification systems to identify the factors affecting their evolution. Lien
• RELI: Recherche En Linguistique Illustrée [Research In Linguistics Illustrated] - Project funded by the Labex ASLAN (6000 euros) - Principal Investigator. This one-year project (2020-2021) contributes to the valorization of science by popularizing research of the ASLAN laboratories in Lyon in the form of short comics and comic strips. Lien
• FIELDLING (Funded international school in linguistic fieldwork) - Principal coordinator. FieldLing has been organised on a yearly basis since 2010 (involved units related to the CNRS: LLACAN, SEDYL, LACITO, INALCO, PARIS 3, LABEX EFL). It is at present the only regular (and free) intensive training program in France preparing students to study theories, methods, and the use of technological tools for language description through fieldwork. Lien
• GIS FOR LANGUAGE STUDY (Funded research environment, Uppsala University) - Principal coordinator. This project of Alexandra Petrulevich (Uppsala University) undertakes a series of seminars and workshops from 2017 to 2019 to explore the analytical tools provided by Geographic Information Systems such as QGIS, thereby giving the faculty's research on location-based materials a lift. Lien

 ENSEIGNEMENTS

 PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS ET CONFÉRENCES

• Ouvrages

• Tang, M., 2019, "A typology of classifiers and gender: From description to computation", Uppsala, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis

• Chapitres dans les ouvrages

• Kilarski, M. & Tang, M., 2021, "Classifiers in Morphology", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Aronoff, M. (ed), Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-28

• Vittrant, A. & Tang, M., 2021, "Classifiers in Southeast Asian Languages", in The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A comprehensive guide, Sidwell, P. & Mathias, J. (eds), Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 733-772

• Tang, M. & Wan, I.P., 2019, "Predicting speech errors in Mandarin based on word frequency", in From minimal contrast to meaning construct, Qu, S. & Zhan, W. (eds), Singapore, Springer, pp. 289-303

• Basirat, A. & Tang, M., 2019, "Linguistic information in word embeddings", in Agents and artificial intelligence, van den Herik, J. & Rocha, A. (eds), Cham, Springer, pp. 492-513

• Articles de revues

• Parajuli, K. & Tang, M., 2023, "A corpus-based quantitative study of numeral classifiers in Nepali", Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, ahead of print

• Ulrich, N., Pellegrino, F. & Tang, M., 2023, "Intra- and inter-speaker variation in eight Russian fricatives", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153:4, pp. 2285-2297

• Hutin, M. & Tang, M., 2023, "L’apport des données participatives pour l’étude linguistique des français du monde : le cas de l’opposition /a∼ɑ/", Journal of French Language Studies, 2023, pp. 1-24

• Levshina, N., Namboodiripad, S., Tang, M., Kramer, M., Talamo, L., Verkerk, A., Wilmoth, S., Rodriguez, G., Gupton, T., Kidd, E., Liu, Z., Naccarato, C., Nordlinger, R., Panova, A. & Stoynova, N., 2023, "Why we need a gradient approach to word order", Linguistics, 61:4, pp. 825-883

• Tang, M., Gao, Z.L., Chen, S.A. & Her, O.S., 2023, "Phylogenetic analyses for the origin of sortal classifiers in Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic languages", Concentric, 49:2, pp. 295-315

• Her, O.S., Tsai, J.W. & Tang, M., 2022, "On Taiwan universities' two-one academic dismissal policies: A quantitative fairness analysis of NCCU's four policies", Journal of Educational Research and Development, 18:4, pp. 79-112

• Wichers Schreur, J., Tang, M., Bellamy, K. & Rochant, N., 2022, "Predicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages: Three methods compared", Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2:2, pp. 93–126

• Her, O.S., Hammarström, H. & Tang, M., 2022, "Defining numeral classifiers and identifying classifier languages of the world", Linguistics Vanguard, 8:1, pp. 151-164

• Quint, N. & Tang, M., 2022, "Inferring case paradigms in Koalib with computational classifiers", Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, ahead of print

• Hutin, M. & Tang, M., 2022, "Operation LiLi: Using Crowd-Sourced Data and Automatic Alignment to Investigate the Phonetics and Phonology of Less-Resourced Languages", Languages, 7:3, pp. 234

• Tang, M., Robert, S. & Voisin, S., 2022, "The noncausal/causal alternation and genealogical affiliation: Quantitative testing in three Niger-Congo language families", Linguistique et Langues Africaines , 8:2, pp. 1-20

• Tang, M., Chen, Y.C., Yen, N.S. & Her, O.S., 2021, "Investigating the branching of Chinese classifier phrases: Evidence from speech perception and production", Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 49:1, pp. 71-105

• Easterday, S., Stave, M., Tang, M. & Seifart, F., 2021, "Syllable complexity and morphological synthesis: A well-motivated positive complexity correlation across subdomains", Frontiers in Psychology, 12, pp. 583

• Basirat, A., Tang, M. & Berdicevskis, A., 2021, "An empirical study on the contribution of formal and semantic features to the grammatical gender of nouns", Linguistics Vanguard, 7:1, pp. 20200048

• Grant, P., Sebastian, R., Tang, M. & Cosemans, S., 2021, "Topic modelling on archive documents from the 1970s: Global policies on refugees", Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Advance articles, pp. 1-22

• Lemus Serrano, M., Tang, M. & Dediu, D., 2021, "What conditions tone paradigms in Yukuna: Phonological and machine learning approaches", Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 6:1, pp. 1-22

• Josserand, M., Tang, M., Pellegrino, F. & Dediu, D., 2021, "Interindividual variation refuses to go away: A Bayesian computer model of language change in communicative networks", Frontiers in Psychology, 12, pp. 2176

• Wan, I.P. & Tang, M., 2021, "A corpus study of lexical speech errors in Mandarin", Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 19:2, pp. 87-120

• Ulrich, N., Tang, M., Pellegrino, F. & Dediu, D., 2021, "Identifying the Russian voiceless non-palatalized fricatives /f/, /s/, and /ʃ/ from acoustic cues using machine learning", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150:3, pp. 1806-1820

• Tang, M., Lundgren, O., Robbers, M., Cronhamn, S., Larsson, F., Her, O.S., Hammarström, H. & Carling, G., 2021, "Expansion by migration and diffusion by contact is a source to the global diversity of linguistic nominal categorization systems", Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8:331

• Tang, M., Brown, D. & Fedden, S., 2021, "Testing semantic dominance in Mian gender: Three machine learning models", Oceanic Linguistics, 60:2, pp. 302-334

• Her, O.S. & Tang, M., 2020, "A statistical explanation of the distribution of sortal classifiers in languages of the world via computational classifiers", Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 27:2, pp. 93-113

• Tang, M., 2020, "A simple introduction to programming and statistics with decision trees in R", Teaching Statistics, 42:2, pp. 36-40

• Tang, M. & Kilarski, M., 2020, "Functions of gender and numeral classifiers in Nepali", Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 56:1, pp. 113-168

• Tang, M. & Her, O.S., 2020, "Numeral base, numeral classifier, and noun: Word order harmonization", Language and Linguistics, 21:4, pp. 511-556

• Tang, M. & Dunn, M., 2020, "The evolutionary trends of grammatical gender in Indo-Aryan languages", Language Dynamics and Change, 11:2, pp. 211-240

• Her, O.S., Tang, M. & Li, B.T., 2019, "Word order of numeral classifiers and numeral bases: Harmonization by multiplication", Language Typology and Universals, 72:3, pp. 421-452

• Tang, M., 2019, "The diachrony of classification systems [by William B. McGregor & Søren Wichmann (review)] ", Linguistic Variation, 19:2, pp. 386-392

• Tang, M. & Her, O.S., 2019, "Insights on the Greenberg-Sanches-Slobin generalization: Quantitative typological data on classifiers and plural markers", Folia Linguistica, 53:2, pp. 297-331

• Eliasson, P. & Tang, M., 2018, "The lexical and discourse functions of grammatical gender in Marathi", Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 5:2, pp. 131-157

• Tang, M., 2018, "The dynamics of nominal classification: Productive and lexicalised uses of gender agreement in Mawng [by Ruth Singer (review)]", Oceanic Linguistics, 57:1, pp. 255-260

• Tang, M., 2017, "Explaining the acquisition order of classifiers and measure words via their mathematical complexity", Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 5:1, pp. 31-52

• Communications avec actes édités

• Hammarström, H., Her, O.S. & Tang, M., 2021, "Term spotting: A quick-and-dirty method for extracting typological features of language from grammatical descriptions", proc. of Swedish Language Technology Conference, Online, November 25–27, pp. 27-34

• Veeman, H., Tang, M., Berdicevskis, A. & Basirat, A., 2020, "Cross-lingual embeddings reveal universal and lineage-specific patterns in grammatical gender assignment", proc. of the 24th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Online, November 19-20, pp. 265-275

• Basirat, A. & Tang, M., 2018, "Lexical and Morpho-syntactic Features in Word Embeddings: A Case Study of Nouns in Swedish", proc. of 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Madeira, Portugal, January 16-18, Scite Press, pp. 663-674

• Kilarski, M. & Tang, M., 2018, "The coalescence of grammatical gender and numeral classifiers in the general classifier wota in Nepali", proc. of the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Salt Lake City, January 4-7, LSA, 3/56, pp. 1-10