The LPL is a Joint Research Unit affiliated with the CNRS and Aix-Marseille University. It is home to an international, interdisciplinary team of phoneticians, linguists, computer scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, physicists and doctors. The main aim of the laboratory is to study the mechanisms involved in the production, perception and understanding of speech and language.
The laboratory has a technical platform that is open to the outside world and includes a range of instruments for investigating the production and perception of speech and language. It is also one of the main players of the Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain (ILCB) and Institute of Creativity and Innovations of Aix-Marseille (InCIAM).
The LPL researchers, lecturer-researchers and engineers are working together through five research teams and one special research group:
| LEDA: Languages, education, learning | LSD: Language and speech dynamics | S2S: Sound to sense |
| SYSTUS: Systems, uses and societies | VESPA: Variation and singularity in speech | Prosody research group |
