Applied ontology is a relatively new field which aims to apply theories and methods from diverse disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and formal logics to perform or improve domain-specific tasks. To support the development of effective research methodologies for applied on...

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Despite the paucity of documentary evidence arguing in favour of the existence of much sculpting activity in and near Chambéry, the criteria needed to establish the presence of an artistic hub in the town and its vicinity at the turn of the XV and XVI centuries can be shown. The existence of a large...

A number of recent Optimality-Theoretic approaches to Nonconcatenative Templatic Morphologies (NTM) such as the verbal systems of Arabic and Hebrew have argued that NTMs do not require reification of the consonantal root (Bat-El, 1994 ; Ussishkin, 1999, 2000, 2005 ; Buckley, 2003). This article pres...

The New Labour Governments encouraged the emergence of a multi-dimensional language policy, in particular as regards education, the competitiveness of businesses, but also the representation of the Kingdom in the eyes of foreigners. However, none of the vernacular languages of ethnic minorities with...

Current English varieties have a class of modal verbs which are syntactically and morphologically irregular. In Standard English these verbs do not have a third person -s present tense inflection, an -ing form, a past participle; they do not permit a direct object and are not followed by another mod...

The latest language model number appears under the opening sign. Openness to international research, a diversity of corpus and a plurality of theoretical schools, which together bring fresh blood to research. Perhaps the idea is to offer reading to a non-specialist, at the risk and risk of language....

Our communication presents a study that is part of contrasting work to identify cross-language differences, focusing in particular on syntactic behaviours of interrogators and undefined ones.

The applicative combinatory categorical Grammaire expands Steedman’s combinatorial categorical Grammaire by a canonic association between Curry’s rules and combiners on the one hand and the use of metarègles that control type change operations on the other. This model is included in the general mode...

The Dutch language is taught mainly in northern France along the Belgian border from Dunkirk to Lille. It is the official language of the Netherlands and Flanders. Since 1945, these regions have become rich and industrialised, and “local globalisation” has multiplied the exchange of services and cli...

Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä and Mari Mäkiranta discuss how to make sensitive interventions across cultural divides with a focus on the San people of Africa. In line with feminist practices, they outline how a caring ethos can protect the individual from some of the challenges customary within a neoliberal...

Photo by Tom Perkins, CC-BY 4.0 Who Writes About Whom? Contributors to this book, who come from countries across Europe and sometimes further afield, share a common interest in narrative research about people’s lives, thoughts and actions. Contributors have a common interest, too, in the education o...

Laura Mazzoli Smith considers widening participation in higher education in the light of Williams’ notion of resources of hope. Taking an autoethnographic approach, Laura demonstrates how her reading of Iris Murdoch as a young person facilitated her own entry into higher education. Through understan...

1. Corsica at school: a dual reality In order to approach the issue of safeguarding endangered languages by the school, we have chosen to include it in a broader issue: identity in school. This means focusing on the question of meaning and reproblemising the plan to take account of regional language...

In this thesis, we aim at enriching the content of an unstructured document with respect to a domain of interest. The goal is to minimize the vocabulary and informational gap between the document and the domain. Such an enrichment which is based on Natural Language Processing and Information Retriev...

International audience Self-regulated learning (SRL) includes the cognitive, metacognitive, behavioral, motivational, and emotional/affective aspects of learning. The conceptualization of self and socially regulated learning (SSRL) has recently received much attention and peer assessment (PA) has be...

The use of synthetic worlds in the teaching/learning of languages remains controversial in France. International research (Jarmon et al.; Wigham and Chanier) show the educational value of these innovative schemes that leave room for the learner’s creativity and facilitate learning. We wanted to chec...

Language, as an arbitrary and conventional communication system, is an inhethetically social and cultural semmiotic object that can only be acquired through the mediation of others. Mediation can take the form of a simplified and well-trained language model, known to have the specific features of a...

In this research, I will question a concept halfway between knowledge and action, interculturality in field oflanguage sciences and more specifically in educational and linguistic policies, within the context ofinternational cooperation between France and Brazil. Which intercultural skills are Frenc...

International audience Due to its history and geographical position, Turkey is multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual (Andrews 1989;Virtanen 2003)andso is the region of Antioch (Doǧruel 2013)which is anArabic-Turkish bilingual region since its attachment to Turkey in 1939.The linguistic situati...

International audience This study investigates the impact of the input in language acquisition of young bilinguals (5-7 y.) from mixed French- and Russian-speaking families living in France. The results of our previous research on fluency in bilingual children’s speech productions showed the importa...

Dans le Livre blanc sur la recherche en études anglophones de 2001, Gilles Mathis présente la stylistique en évoquant la multiplicité de ses champs opératoires : La stylistique, que le terme recouvre l’étude du style (d’auteur, d’école, de période, de genre, etc.) ou l’analyse stylistique des textes...

This monumental work is a sort of encyclopaedia containing inputs from History, Language, Anthropology, Archaeology, Literature, Geography and Demography to improve knowledge of the ‘Andean world’. Originally published in English in 2008, this edition in Spanish, which is properly updated, makes a r...

Partial language description of an Adamawa language from Chad

. Contrary to the linguistic data published earlier by Statistics Canada, data checked in advance so as to eliminate all cases of double, multiple and missing responses, the mother tongue and languages actually reported in the 1981 census show a net anglicisation of the French group in Quebec. The f...